Procrastination is a thief of time

Procrastination is very common among us. I am pretty sure that all of us, as a human being ever commit procrastinate when doing our work, task and assignments. What is the main reason we tend to be a procrastinate person? The answer is because of laziness. I have been assigned to write this personal journal by my beloved lecturer who teaches English Studies. I strongly agree with this undeniable quote or we can say it as a fact. Why? First of all, have you ever been in a condition where you postpone you work till the eleventh hour and at last, you are not able to complete your task and cause you a great problem? If your answer is yes, you have committed procrastination. How painful it can be when we commit procrastination.

Then, let’s move to a novel written by Chinua Achebe. Before I give my critical comments about this, I just want to share with you something. When I first heard about this author’s name, I feel that his name is quite interesting and I keep mentioning his name. I know it is very funny. Back to our novel, for me I feel that there is procrastination done by those Umuofian people.  If you notice, the villagers do not take any action to Ikemefuna as they do not know what kind of punishment he deserves. They actually should take immediate action by having a meeting or any other incentives. By procrastinate the punishment, Ikemefuna becomes very close to Okonkwo’s family. Okonkwo, who fears of being said as a weak person, kills Ikemefuna by himself. After the killing, we can see that the feeling experienced by Okonkwo is quite strange and he looks depressed. He is very close to Ikemefuna as the lad calls him ‘father’. The immediate action should be taken before, not until they have grown a father-son feeling towards each other.

Okay, back to reality now, I am one of the persons who love to procrastinate my time. For example, it can be seen straight away. I suppose to finish this personal journal yesterday but instead making it done yesterday, I postpone it till today. It is not good actually. There are a lot of things or works that we can do if we manage our time wisely. Time management is very important here if we want to succeed. Okay, I will give an example experienced by my friend. This is a real story. We have been assigned a task to do and we have to complete within a short period. Then, he waited till the eleventh hour to start the task and unluckily, he had lost all the data that he had saved in his laptop. It was 3.00 am in the morning, and for the sake of the marks, he had to redo it again until 5.30 am in the morning. He did not have enough sleep and he got low marks for the task. So, I hope all of us at least try our best to avoid procrastination as it is a thief of time.