The Typical Teen

You sit there in this solid, chair. What is there to write about? As you look onto your Word document, the cursor’s blinking rate is following the rate of your heart. You think, think again, and think harder. Nothing. This paper is due this tomorrow. You’ll do it later. No big deal, right? 

The key to not writing a paper is to procrastinate. It’s something all teenagers do and soon, it ends up being an abominable habit. Procrastination is putting an assignment aside and worrying about it the last minute.

In the meantime, you’re stalling as much as you can. That stomach of yours is growling fiercely. It’s only 3:30, time to enter your refrigerator and find something to eat. You’re not satisfied - eat some more. Look at the time now. 

What’s next? You lay down on your comfy, old bed. While grabbing for the remote, your stomach tightens. After you turn the television on and watch a movie or two, you fall asleep. As the time flies by, you don’t know what time it is. You wake up in the dark with a daze from your television. Oh, no, it’s 9 o’clock!

Immediately, you rush to open your door to take a shower. Afterwards, you get ready. Constantly going through your mind, you decide to make the most staggering paper ever written! Therefore, you turn on your laptop, determined to write the paper. The laptop is done loading. You open the word document to a blank page. Finally, you go on Youtube to motivate yourself with music. By opening a couple new tabs: signing onto Facebook, chatting with your friends, playing video games, and browsing the internet, you get distracted. It’s now 2 in the morning. What happens now? You go to sleep. 

You wake up in the morning and go to school, completely ignoring the fact that you didn’t do your assignment. As the day passes by, you get to that class. What are the consequences to not writing your paper? Making up excuses, asking for more time, and failing the class. Procrastination is a problem: don’t do it.