"Steph, if you do my paper, I'll read your book and take notes on it," my brother says to me as I'm propped up on the couch trying to concentrate on reading four hundred something pages in one day. Interested, I look up.
"So you would rather read my ENTIRE book complete with notes than spend two hours doing your own work?"
"yeah," and for a second I consider taking advantage of this opportunity before deciding that that would be overly abusive of my powers as older sister. The funny thing is, I completely believe him- I know the feeling of preferring just about anything over what I need to do for myself- even if it costs more time and a lot more energy. Why is this, I ask myself, and accept the fact that I will have to run upstairs and grab my laptop to blog about it.
I am certainly not an expert on this, but I would think that this mechanism comes from the nature of stressing over something just enough to put it off till the last second: ah, procrastination. I would hesitate to call it compassion for the other person. But this whole question leads me to thinking of new years resolutions, as this time of year calls for. I could just stop procrastinating altogether, but that would simply be a lie, (I've done plenty of those kinds of resolutions before). Striving to make learning fun may be possible, however. No, there is no way to change the assignment, but fancy pens, a cute notebook, and a cup of raspberry tea may make a day of reading about globalization more enjoyable. Paint your desk a wacky color! Give yourself a reward if you do something ahead of time. This kind of simple happiness would make doing homework more enjoyable, and leave less room for brain-listing all the torturous things you'd rather be doing. Yes, I think this will be my new year's resolution: learning to love to learn.
*PS- Mr. Vohden I know it's January 1st but can you count this one as December?:)*
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