Another Procrastinated Blog On Procrastination: Kosher Happiness

As an experienced procrastinator, my knowledge on the subject has granted me a solid point of view from which I can analyze the pros and cons of “Sleep, laziness, and negligence” (Gita 18.39). After a desperate attempt to delay the creation of my essay, I have concluded that the more I refuse to do my duty, the harder it gets to actually do it when I want to. Procrastination is a habit that can get pretty strong once you let it. These muscles thrive when we are “self-deluding”. According to Krishna from the Gita, “…it is said to be darkly inert” (Gita 18.39). What this means is that, like a parasite, the more you feed it, the more it refuses to leave.
This parasite that consumes you (or me, in my case) gives you a false sense of happiness. It is bitter-sweet in the sense that you can’t truly enjoy what you’re wasting your time with because you know in the back of your personal to-do drawer that you should be doing something else. It’s sickening (literally… I can give genuine testimony), and it really doesn’t have any considerable up-sides. As Krishna demonstrates, there are many types of happiness, but some are not advisable to experience. As an expert procrastinator, I am telling you to stop procrastinating and get to work. The only Kosher Happiness is that of lucidity, which “at first seems like poison but it is in the end like ambrosia, from the calm of self-understanding” (Gita 18. 37). Procrastination is one of those things that you should be taught to avoid in school. And, as I elongate this blog to the extent where I have nothing else to say, I realize that I am procrastinating. I am trying to delay the composition of my final essay, caused by an internal fight that I am experiencing with a rather powerful adversary/parasite. I have just won!...