Procrastination, according to Google, is "the action of delaying or postponing something." According to me, procrastination is a way to avoid your responsibilities even for a short period of time. I think of myself as somewhat of an expert at procrastination, so to convey my "expert' opinion, I present a list of my favorite ways to procrastinate. Actually, most of these were used in the process of avoiding writing this article.
1. Go to Subway with your roommate even though you aren’t getting anything
2. Go through all your makeup to make sure none of it is expired
3. Wash all of your makeup brushes because you haven’t done that in weeks and it needs to be done RIGHT NOW
4. Go through Facebook and stalk people you went to high school with who you don’t even like
5. Go to Taco Bell
6. Clean under your bed
7. Make a new playlist
8. Test every single pen to make sure they all still work even though you really only use the same two every day
9. Take a shower and double wash your hair
10. Buy a stuffed bear
11. Put a mustache on said stuffed bear
12. Claim you don’t know said stuffed bear is a stuffed bear
13. Post a picture with stuffed bear
14. Call Mom and listen to her tell you that you need to study more
15. Find the perfect GIF to send to the group chat
16. Watch all of Ed Sheeran’s music videos
17. Calculate what grade you need to pass that one class
18. Refill your water bottle even though it isn’t that empty
19. Google where the next Olympics is going to be
20. Google how much tickets are for the Olympics
21. Google how much plane tickets are to the next Olympics
22. Realize you have no money
23. Try to make plans for this weekend
24. Realize you already have plans for this weekend
25. Realize that those plans are a birthday party
26. Realize you don’t have a gift for said birthday party
27. Find a gift for the birthday party
28. Realize you need to wrap the gift
29. Find an old newspaper that you have no idea where it came from
30. Listen to the people in the hallway being annoying
31. Complain to your roommates about the annoying people in the hallway
32. Google what “Galway” is
33. Take a nap
34. Shower because you need to wake up after your nap
35. Do yoga
36. Stop doing yoga because you don’t actually know how to do yoga
37. Watch an entire season of "Supernatural"
38. Make Christmas decorations
39. Clean out the fridge because that hasn’t been done in a few weeks
40. Write an article
41. Fill out your planner for next semester
42. Make a to-do list for tomorrow because lists are made to be ignored
43. Stress out about the workload that you have this week
44. Cry
45. Start a group video chat with your high school friends
46. Wait for the video chat to not go through because all of your friends have lives
47. Move on to watching all of Taylor Swift’s music videos
48. Question why you aren’t making all A’s
49. Call your brother to bug him
50. Go through your Pandora playlists from middle school
51. Reminisce about middle school
52. Regret middle school and most of high school
53. Watch Netflix
There you go! Good luck avoiding your responsibilities. (Disclaimer: I am not responsible for whatever consequences may result from procrastination.)