My first meeting as leader of a creative writing group, and what am I doing? Faffing, messing, rearranging deckchairs on the Titanic! My son thinks there is a syndrome called procrastinitis… well I think I have it. The more important the prospective event, the more I am likely to be polishing the skirting boards or rearranging cookery books… yes I actually was rearranging the cookery books yesterday!
The urban Dictionary defines it: A mental disease. Symptoms include tardiness, lack of enthusiasm, and an overwhelming sense of laziness… Yup, that’s me!
Wikipedia says: Traditionally, procrastination has been associated with perfectionism, a tendency to negatively evaluate outcomes and one’s own performance, intense fear and avoidance of evaluation of one’s abilities by others, heightened social self-consciousness and anxiety, recurrent low mood, and “workaholism”…. perfectionist? Workaholic? Definitely not, I like to think I have a pragmatic and realistic expectation of perfection and as for being a workaholic…
Lois Elsden 
An ‘itis’ is an inflammatory process, usually a physiological attempt at restoring the status quo. As such, a ‘procrastinitis’ could be a thoroughly beneficial state of affairs. Procrastination may be ‘the thief of time’ but many good decisions come from sitting back and exhibiting a patience often borne only of maturity. ‘Fools rush in…
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Aww, thank you… I shall try and think of it as a something that may have a positive outcome after all!
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