The Pursuit of Procrastination

Confession time!
I procrastinate. A lot.

Then again, which kid doesn't?

I mean, I've seen the most annoyingly smart kid in my class hide a novel behind a textbook and read.
With pending homework.
In a class allotted to finish that homework.
A week before the exams start.

I rest my case.

Okay, so we all put off things. Especially before exams- that's when we feel like doing anything else but study. We feel like staring into space. We feel like playing random games with our younger siblings (who don't have exams- the lucky kids). We feel like having hour-long conversations with that boring cousin we avoid. I mean, we prefer cleaning our rooms to studying. (Okay, maybe not clean them completely, just shove the piles of stuff on the desk and the bed into cupboards and push everything into something -loosely- resembling order.)

And of course during the exams, the movies you want to watch release, and the internet and newspapers are exploding with cast interviews and movie reviews and whatnot.
And this time...the WORLD CUP is during the exams.
Luckily, my parents let me watch the India matches (and I don't really care about the others).
Speaking of which, India's definitely in the quarterfinals. Nine straight victories, counting CWC 2011! How awesome is that?

Okay, where am I going with this?

Right. Procrastination and exams.
It's exam time and it's that time of the year when you just DO NOT feel like studying. (Okay, so we never feel like studying, but this is when you're seriously, actively willing to do almost anything but study because normally, when given a choice between helping our annoying little brothers or sisters and studying, we choose to study, but now...)
So you put it off.

You're like, "Yeah, I'll go study now," and you take your iPod to listen to music, close the door, and then you just switch your attention to the songs. You start scrolling through your playlists and albums, like, "Okay, now Taylor Swift or Aashiqui 2? Ooh, I haven't heard YJHD in a while! Badtameez dil it is!"
And then, 'cause you can't decide which song to play next, you choose to shuffle the songs, which reminds you of Party Rock Anthem and you pause to go, "Everyday I'm shufflin'!" before wondering what exactly the lyrics of Nagada Sang Dhol are and you replay it a couple of times to figure it out, and then you get bored with that one and move on to....you get the idea.

Or you sit down to"study" and then you get up every two minutes to drink water, grab a snack, drink some more water, grab another snack, get yourself a pen because the one you're using ran out of ink, check the score of the England-New Zealand match even though you couldn't care less who won, munch some muruku, see when the next Grand Slam tournament starts, cut your nails, drink a glass of juice, check the time and refill your juice glass, by which time you feel exhausted and you decide that you've "studied" enough.

Girls will be just itching to sort out jewellery, look for that kaajal stick that's been missing for a couple of weeks or try out that hairstyle that Deepika Padukone had in the song Kabira for Aditi's wedding in YJHD.
And me? I do all of that and work on blog posts (I haven't tried the hairstyle yet, though..will do so)
Because I have exams this whole week and I'm sitting here writing a blog post.

That's the way we are.
(Just the way you are... Stop. I shouldn't let my mind wander. Shouldn't think of Bruno Mars songs...especially not an a cappella version from Pitch Perfect...STOP!)

I call this phenomenon the Pursuit of Procrastination.
Because it sounds fancy.
(I'm so fancy...Oh, I am really getting distracted.)
And it's kind of like The Pursuit of Happiness.
Even though I haven't watched it.
My friends claim they cried over it.

Also it sounds precocious.
(If you say it loud enough you'll always sound precocious -supercalifragalisticexpialidocious! I love that song. I'd better check where that Mary Poppins DVD is...Julie Andrews is awesome. Note to self: write a post on Sound of Music.)

I'd better wrap this up before I go off on a tangent (math reference!) and bore you all so much that you go and start studying.
Oh wow. That would be weird. And would ruin the point of this post.

So!
The Pursuit of Procrastination, followed by nearly every school kid I know.
And possibly adults as well.
Better check and see....