I'll Get to It....Eventually (Part 2)

So apparently, no one commented on the last blog post (as of this date anyway), and while I must admit my feelings are a bit hurt, but is it really expected.  To be honest, this blog post is pretty much me forcing myself to suck it up and start writing, so here I am.  Would it be fun any other way? (Yeah, probably)

Anyways, right down to business -- procrastination -- what drives it?  What makes it so ridiculously impossible to do the work that you need to well ahead of time?

Well, one of the ideas that did come to mind earlier was pressure.  Personally, I believe that pressure is required to create work of greatest quality.  It seems like a contradiction, I know, but it is there.  What significance is put into work if there is little to no pressure forcing the issue?  There usually is none, unless a person was obsessed with doing their best with every little project or piece they create.  While that is ideal, the world is not that perfect and people are never that hardworking, so the point is moot. (Yes this is a generalization, but I doubt anyone can argue it is not an accurate one)

However, I do not believe pressure is the biggest deterrent of staying on task when one is supposed to stay on task. The more effective reason behind it, I believe, is the idea that humans, or at least those in Western civilization, are innately rebellious. When someone tells you to do something, do you not have a twinge of deviance?  Even when superiors do give commands, humans will try constantly to escape doing it.

But I believe this delves more into human nature's basic anti-authority instincts.  But are these instincts truly innate or are they developed?  As stated earlier, Eastern society does not follow the same ideal as the West.  However, before there is a resolve, I will continue this analysis into the next entry.