The Procrastinator Analysis

The Procrastinator

This boy who gave up on reading the textbook with the page flipped to the fourth page on John Cabot at exactly 9 p.m. the night before the history test. The large red F on the top of his test the next week told the whole story. Everyone at the school knew who he was. The lazy couch potato, the class sleeper, but of course, the extreme procrastinator. While everyone had been guilty of procrastinating at one point, Michael, had given up at one point in his life. His sister had stopped nagging him to get off his couch “centuries” ago. Michael had a knack for keeping life simple. His complicated routine started with eating, walking to school late, sleeping all day at school, daydreaming, walking home, then watching TV, surfing the web, reassuring himself the project due next week would be finished tomorrow, and then finally dozing off. His parents couldn’t do anything about it as they had always reminded him to do his work with no avail over and over again. All they could do was wonder how he had not flunked out of high school yet.
This boy who gave up on reading the textbook with the page flipped to the fourth page on John Cabot at exactly 9 p.m. the night before the history test was a seventeen year old boy, with a useful skill. Michael was good at doing nothing. Infact,
When Michael finally realized that he couldn’t procrastinate on studying for his History test that was tomorrow, he looked up with terror and did what he always did. He panicked. His class had been given weeks to study for the test. He then promptly took a few coffees and locked himself up in a room. But in a sharp drastic turn of events, when his parents checked on him a 9:30 p.m., he was already dozing off in his bed. Michael had given up like he always had. Probably planning to study the next day on the bus, again. Michael constantly failed his test during the year, but he always barely passed his courses. His teachers thought it was a