Relief

 As I went in to turn in my summer homework, I couldn’t help but notice the overwhelming sense of relief that I got, I procrastinated wayyyyy too much on these assignments, but I still managed to get it done. I haven’t slept in like four days, and I was extremely tired the entire time I was doing all of this; however, now that I’m done, my plan to sleep for five hours after I turned in my homework is gone. I am suddenly no longer tired. In fact, I’m energetic. I can’t stop pacing around my house, and it’s weirding my family out. I’m aware it’s probably just the adrenaline I’m running on that’s making me feel this way, but it’s just such an amazing feeling. Now I have like two hours before I’m in hyper work mode again because I have three days to finish all my APUSH summer homework. Fun. Every time I procrastinate I regret it, but I can’t stop. I don’t know if it’s the fact that I get like high off this feeling or simply because I cannot wrap my mind around the idea of actually doing my work on time, but again, the relief I feel typing up my final blog post and turning in this notebook I’ve slaved over these past few days is unreal.

I know most of you probably won’t look at this thing again, but I honestly cannot be the only one to feel this way. Like is it just the feeling that we get after when we procrastinate? Is it that it motivates us because we work best under intense pressure and stress?

-Samira Elasmar