Procrastination

Its funny how people tend to categorize themselves. “I’m a morning person,” vs. “I’m a night owl,” or “I’m just a messy person,” vs. “I’m a neat-freak.” It’s funny because its true. But what if the circumstances surrounding these categories changed? Would people change too? Lets say that you’re a person who considers yourself “messy.” But one day, you have to write a very large and important piece of work that contributes heavily to your graduate studies; lets say… doctoral studies in social work. As a result of the impending deadline, you arrive at the office early and prepare yourself for the rigorous reporting of scientific facts, but before you could possibly begin, you realize how disorganized your electronic filing system has become. Documents and folders on your desktop just don’t seem to mesh efficiently. The culmination of a semester worth of binary disorder ends now. How could you possibly produce articulate and clear-thinking work on such an important paper in this quagmire of ineffectiveness? You can’t!
Or, is it possible that although you are a messy person, an overarching character flaw is that you are a procrastinator? And in this very moment, are you not siphoning creative energies that could be allocated toward a critical analysis and reporting of pivotal social research, thus advancing your career by producing a passing grade in your class? I’ll address this question momentarily.
First, I think we have uncovered something important here; namely, that character flaws seem to self-regulate and organize in accordance with Darwin’s Theory of Evolution (Registered Trademark of Big Science©). Survival of the fittest is one way we can begin to understand the life cycle of character flaws. Naturally selected for their ability to out-compete and out-live lesser character flaws, these super flaws, as they will be known hereafter, seem tailor-made stumbling blocks to our best efforts. The hierarchical nature of life’s challenges can be organized as follows: Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, and ‘you did what?’ Further organization is possible, but not practical with generalizable interest. The domain level represents all character flaws in general. The kingdom level breaks the domain into about three categories: Character flaws that annoy everyone, character flaws that are self defeating, and character flaws that annoy everyone and are self-defeating. The phylum represents this super flaw level. These are the flaws that supercede all lesser flaws. It contains such super flaws as impatience, hating baby kittens, and procrastination. Therefore, according to the Domain character flaw, and the Kingdom flaws that annoy everyone and are self-defeating, and the Phylum procrastination, you are probably reading this while you should be doing something else far more important, thus advancing the super flaws of your author—thanks a lot! (did I mention blaming as another super flaw?)
By the way, the answer is Yes!