You probably know procrastination too. What’s its point?
Usually, procrastination gets tied to laziness, dodging an uncomfortable task, or fear of failing in someone's eyes.
But what if it's the exact opposite?
Recall how it feels when you dive into work at the very last moment:
Inside you swell: fear and thrill, anxiety and excitement,
All your focus locks on one single point,
Other duties and problems fade into the background,
Your "self," and its ethernal critic, vanish—you just are,
You risk it all, balancing wildly on the edge of triumph or disaster,
It's brutally hard, but intuition whispers: "There's a chance!",
The past lets go, the future stops mattering,
No doubts about the steps to take right now,
Sometimes you can't tell where you end and Flow begins,
Your vessel fills to the brim with personal meaning.
The key? In that moment, you feel truly alive.
If that's how it goes, it's really scary. Because it means, at best, all other time drags in hellish routine. At worst, it's unconscious existence, like an ant.
Procrastination is defibrillation. Your body deliberately creates an acute crisis so that an electric shock can bring you back to life.
Then procrastination isn't the problem—it's a desperate fix. More precisely, it points to the root question:
"Why vegetate when your true Life calls?"
Sincerely yours,
-Alexander
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