'I'll read it later'

[dropcap]W[/dropcap]hat's so important now that you need to add something to your reading list? Oh, work. Yeah that makes sense. But wait, you're skimming the latest rubbish on Facebook, aren't you? What a shame -- I thought you were working. Stupidity and credulous behavior aside, you need to start reading more now. With every spectacular new bit of writing or news that I see on the Internet, I constantly tell myself that I have time to check back into it later, attempting to persuade my stubborn mind that I should be doing work right now. Yet that never seems to work. Instead, I find myself off to browse another website looking for something else to do, in place of the task that I should be fulfilling.

I love how psychologists think that so many people have anxiety issues. You want to know how that happens? I'll bet it's because people like you and I enjoy hopping from one thing to another. It's not just with webpages, but with real life as well. I often talk to one person for a short amount of time and then move on to someone else, eventually making my way back to the original recipient of my most ridiculous colloquial scheme. My mind apparently has gotten into the habit of thinking about many things at once, but that's a bad thing.

Simply saying "I'm going to do this later" is never enough. Even if you set a reminder to do it, you'll have to employ the same self discipline at a later time. I don't think postponing anything is worth it since you always have to face the problem. In my opinion, you should read or do whatever it is you're thinking about doing right now, within reason of course. The more time you give yourself to do something, the more you're going to put it off.

Oh yeah, and I even contemplated writing this piece later. Mercifully, I did not.