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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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Everything should be going my way

Gildron's picture

So I'm sitting here, and I decided that I wanted to write something down. I'm not going to try to be funny, serious, morbid... I won't try to be much of anything really. It seems I write some of my best (or most popular) stuff when I allow myself to function this way. (Can you really judge greatness on popularity? I don't think so.) But I do have to admit, I like those a lot too. I'm not calling it these, because I'm not sure this will be one of those.

If that made any sense.

I should be really happy right now, things are going great. Besides school wise. School causes an unnecessary amount of stress sometimes, especially when you have parents that expect only greatness from their son, and are disappointed when I do anything less then achieve. Which is often. It's very hard to have your parents acting as if they aren't happy with you 3/4 of the time. They seem to think they went wrong somewhere, and that they could have done better.

But this is getting me down, and I doubt it's helped any of you out at all. Perhaps next time I'll have something more entertaining to contribute. We'll see.

qwertygirl's picture

I like this. The first

I like this. The first paragraph is wonderful, like a stream of conciousness or something... Then you move into a rant type thing that I also love...

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