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The Cause for Procrastination
(If there are any incorrect or unnatural expressions in the entry, please help me to correct them :)
I just stumbled on a video about the cause for procrastination by offering a vivid example. As far as I am concerned, it is more helpful to show people the cause for the terrible habit of procrastination rather than just to provide us with a few tips. Now I want to share it with you.
Firstly, you have to differentiate procrastination from laziness. Some people may naturally connect a person who has a habit of procrastination with a characteristic of "laziness". However, it is not right to think that way. Laziness refers to a person who sits around and does nothing all day, and he/she doesn't feel guilty of it in the slightest. However, if people have procrastination, they tend to stop what they are doing to do other things, like updating micro blogs or pushing the LIKE button all the time. They cannot enjoy true happiness from playing their Apples or iPads, they just get a little bit relax for a moment. Because they know they have to continue to do the stuff they don't want to do.
Here is the cause for procrastination. Let's try to imagine you are going to walk on a long and wide board on the ground. You absolutely will go across on it immediately. Now if the scene changes slightly, and the board is set between two 100-floor buildings A and B, meaning you are in danger of falling down. At this moment you probably will hesitate and procrastinate. Essentially, the difficulty of walking on the board doesn't increase. The only thing changed is the severity of consequence following the failure. But now if the building A catches fire suddenly, and you know if you don't go, you will die. I believe you will go instantly without hesitation under the circumstance. Once you are done, you will realize it is not as hard as you have thought. You may think "I could have done it earlier". And this is the entire process of procrastination. Sometimes you delay doing something just because you are afraid of screwing it up. You mentally set the board in a high level. You don't want your performance to fail to live up to people's expectations. This is the reason why you will procrastinate. To overcome this awful habit, you should learn to prepare for the worst and change the self dialogue—saying to yourself " I want to" instead of "I have to" or "I must" or "I need to".
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Stories Of Girls On Campus (Part 3)
(All the real names of places and people have been altered in the story)
Blair grew up in a traditional intellectual family where her parents had not allowed her to act like a loser—doing poorly on school tests. They would call in counselors and tutors to make sure their only child get good grades, high scores, and a warm welcome to the decent college of her choice.
Blair was nothing if not so good-bred and intellectual. She had small and single-eyelid eyes, round face with straight hair pulled back into a ponytail. She hated to admit that she was slightly fat, although it was the truth. She did have a try to shed some weight when she was at high school,but it wound up failing. She just couldn't restrain her desire to consume some sweet munchies even for two days.
When the military training was over, Blair decided to pick up a dress at Manson's. She had been familiar with that place since she had gone there for several times. Every time she stepped into there she would feel like she were in heaven. There were so many beautiful dresses hanging on racks. She got salivated to look at them. She wanted to try them all on, but of course she couldn't. When you were chubby, you definitely had a lot of limits.
(To be continued)
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Stories Of Girls On Campus (Part 2)
A moment later Serena came over to the military instructor in front of the group and gave him a note. She needed to have a day off because she didn't feel well about the stomach today. She looked even more perfect with cheeks rosy from walking a long distance from school clinic to playground.
"Look, that's Serena!" No matter boys or girls, all of them craned heads and wanted to catch a glimpse of her. As if she were some kind of celebrity.
Serena was one of those girls that while you were looking at, you knew they were thinking" that boy just can't take his eyes off me, because I'm so charming". Although she didn't act anything concerning that, she still looked very charming and proud, or even conceited in some people's eyes. But she was just born that way. She was cooler than any fresh girls on campus, which unavoidably made many of plain-looking girls jealous, even furious. Blair was one of those girls.
(To be continued)
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Stories Of Girls On Campus (Part 1)
(All names of people, places in the following stories have been altered.)
"At ease! Attention! Right-dress!" Loud orders came from the playground on which freshmen were going on a military training in the midst of August. The hot sun parched the ground, the heat dried out the air. The sweat streamed down freshmen's faces as a result of their having been exposed to the hot sun for about one hour, wearing green caps and ill-fitting military uniforms.
"Okay, take a ten-minute break!" The instructor shouted.
Everyone sat down on the ground by tiredness, and fanned themselves with caps to cool down.
Blair was leaning against Isabel at the end of a back row. Isabel was Blair's roommate and also the first friend she got acquainted with ever since she entered the ZJ University.
Suddenly, a movement in the distance caught Blair's eyes. Black and long flying hair. Plaid skirt. Slender and long legs. Pink flip-flops—odd choice, but she made it work. As that girl came closer, Blair recognized her."It's Serena! But why does she come late and not wear the uniform?" She thought.
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It snowed in the early summer
As I described earlier in my last entry, the weather in Harbin, China, is inconstant. On the yesterday afternoon, my friend and I went shopping. On the way to the mall, the temperature was genial and there were few clouds in the sky. However, when we went out of the mall at about eight thirty p.m, it was snowing. The snowflake was blown in the whistling wind, and the temperature fell sharply. Hardly could we believe our eyes as it was already the early summer here. We felt freezing cold with only a T-shirt when the strong wind blew on our bodies. "If somebody brought me a coat right now, I would marry him!" My friend said to me jokingly.
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I Dislike The Terrible Air Quality Here
The air pollution in Harbin, a Chinese city where I live now, is severe and alarming. I could only see a vague outline of a car,a person, or a building in the distance when the dust is blown in the wind and covers my sight. Sometimes I have to go outside with a mask, especially on a windy and dusty day. I'm worried about my health when I'm living in a city like this. I must leave off for another city with a better environment when I graduate from the university here. Besides, the weather in Harbin is inconstant. Yesterday was a rarely fine day here. The genial sunsine poured upon me and saturated me with its warmth. However, it only lasted one day. This early morning when I went outside, I could feel the chill of the wind on my body, and I could hear the wind whistling by my ears.
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A Tale Of My Roommate
My roommate has completely obsessed with soap operas. Yesterday was the start of our three-day vacation. There were only she and I who did not return home and stayed in the dormitory still. I went to sleep at 11 PM. She was watching a soap opera with iPad at the time. The room was stuffy. I woke up at about 4 AM by frowst, thirsty, so I got up to take some water. Surprisingly, I found faint light from her bed. She was still staring at her iPad! So deeply had she immersed herself in soap operas that she laughed in a low voice from time to time without noticing I had got up.
I think vacation is a time in which people can do whatever they want to relax. But it is improper to relax too far without restraint.
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Does "I was no less puzzled than stunned" mean "I was puzzled as much as shocked" ?
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A Tale Of Mine
On the summer vacation after my third year on an elementary school, my parents told me that I would be sent to a boarding school after the summer vacation was over, because they did not have time to take care of me. This was such a sudden decision that I hardly had time to bid farewell to all of my friends and classmates. And I just "disappeared" all of a sudden. Back to that time, a boarding primary school was a pretty unheard-of thing, and there was no one in my home city. As a result, my parents put me into a boarding school which was far away from my home city. I was about ten years old at the time. First few weeks after reaching a brand new school and city were not great. I felt uncomfortable with and were not used to my classmates' accent. And I really disliked to hear they speak their dialect which I did not understand in the slightest. Because it somewhat made me feel I was different from them. But after a period of time, I realized that I would have to spend the rest of three years here, so I must make some efforts to integrate with my classmates. And after some time, my homesickness was over and the strangeness of surroundings gradually began to fade away.
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When Did You First Know You Were An Adult? (Part 2)
The second time when I felt like a real adult, not a girl, was when I started to have an internship in a hospital. One day,I got an opportunity to be an assistant of a doctor in a surgery operation. On the way to the operation room, the patient told me he was very nervous and did not want to die. That was a forty-eight-year-old man. He was faint and pale. I could see helplessness and desperation from his eyes. I kept consoling him all the way. At that moment, a strong feeling came to me that I was already an adult who could make those what I would call real grown-ups trust me.
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