If you think that procrastination is a vice, then think again. Because I recently discovered that it is a virtue. This discovery is the outcome of my innate disorderliness. Well, you now have two cryptic phrases – “”procrastination is a virtue”" and “”disorderliness leads to discovery”". Let me explain. 

My disorderly conduct in the kitchen resulted in a heap of unwashed dishes piled high in the kitchen sink. Before going to bed last night I abdicated myself of the responsibility in the name of impulse control. I surveyed the heap and thought surely there is time to do it in the morning and not JUST NOW.  Come morning the dishes were all cleaned and stacked in their places. Ah Ha! If you wait long enough work disappears. Someone else is hard at work. Didn’t I say procrastination is a virtue? 

Contradiction:
Tarry a while. The current economic slump has made perseverance a virtue. Not procrastination. So if you play the game of a time waster hoping that the work will disappear then stop deluding yourself because the work will remain and you will disappear. You will be thrown in the garbage heap just like the unwashed dishes. There will also be no time or place for orderly discoveries. 

Normally I am not a big time procrastinator. When the urge to do something strikes I put it on my “to-do’ list. Even the more innocuous tasks that go unnoticed are written up. So much so the list gets longer than my arm. So why do I sometimes procrastinate? I think it is the time when I am called upon to do it. At 11.00 pm I am most susceptible and vulnerable. And after close of office hours. It is the time of the day when I cannot stretch myself to complete the task on hand. At such times I happy to put off until tomorrow what needs to be done today or now.