Thursday, March 4, 2010

Procrastination

We all procrastinate at some point, the question is at what point does it become damaging? Is it at the point where you realize that some deadline is looming at the end of the week, end of the day? Maybe its when you realize that you've spent your whole life wondering, instead of experiencing? At age 26 I know more than most people, I could hold lectures on psychology, history, social-anthropology, social dynamics, computers, literature, art.
I've written 2 full length novels, a myriad of short stories, I speak several languages, yet I feel very unfulfilled because one aspect of my life lay unexplored and I have no idea how to proceed with it. Most topics have a set curriculum, read the basics, then move on to more advanced stuff, then move on to the expert part. As you learn a topic it expands and becomes more interesting as a whole. Read about WW2, and you tend to develop an interest for fascism, Nazis, concentration camps, then you may dip into reading about fascism in Italy, then you start to wonder how such a policy could ever get support. So you start to read up on the pre-nazi years in Germany and you realize that the Versailles treaty was a bit harsh and as a result Germany was plunged into a despair where a lot of people couldn't even afford to buy food.

Anyway, I've spent a lot of my life reading and observing, but I've always procrastinated on certain subjects, like human interaction because I felt it was unimportant at first, then as I grew older however the task of learning became more and more daunting and as a result I chose to procrastinate it further.

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