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14. Procrastination. If you had more time, you’d be able to put it off longer. What do you put off to the last moment? Why? Tell a story about how you just barely got something done in time – or didn’t.
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Timeline of our Pathetic Lives

Submitted by Ella11forVA on November 19, 2008 - 09:31.

We start out as babies

Formed in our mother’s wombs

So dependent on that one women

When we reach infancy

We test all limits

No matter how big or small

We walk into our toddler years

Playing and laughing

Learning to talk and walk better

We shoot up to a child’s age

Talking and walking with ease

Figuring out the world for ourselves

We enter the preteen stage

Reaching puberty and getting taller still

Nervously awaiting our teenage years

Now we’re teenagers

Raging hormones and testosterone

Mixing and mingling and first dates

Well, we’re legal now

Playing drinking games

And studying for college exams

Now we’ve graduated college

Finding a job in corporate America

So nervous about job interviews

Welcome, now we’re in our midlife crisis

Everything in the world seems to be going wrong

It’s a crazy roller coaster, filled with ups and downs

We reach the death of us

Gasping for our last breath

Telling everyone we’ll miss them and love we love them

And then, as soon as the cycle starts,

It’s over

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