I am a procrastinator. Some people might call me lazy, and occasionally that is true, but the difference between procrastinating and being lazy is that procrastinators have good intentions. I have so many things that I want to do, but when it comes down to it, I just don't feel like finishing the particular project.
For example, I received, for my tenth birthday a latch hook kit. It has this adorable picture of Winnie The Pooh on it and the box said that it was a "quick and easy kids project". Ha! I spent 5 years trying to finish that thing. I put blood sweat and tears into that little picture, and it is half finished. In fact, last year I put it into a box and tried to forget about it completely because, even if I did finish it, I would have no use for it because, as a 16 year old, I feel that having a picture of Winnie The Pooh on my wall might attract the wrong crowd to my bedroom. But, if I had finished the picture back when I was ten, than I could have spent a couple years displaying Mr. Pooh and it would have been completely appropriate and I would have felt utterly satisfied.
I know that example might be a little trivial because, not everyone is crafty and a lot of people wouldn't even start something along the lines of that, and it makes sense. Why should I even start a project if I know I won't finish it? You see, if I had never started that cross-stitch table runner two years ago I could have saved myself 15 bucks, 25 hours and 3 drops of blood and it sometimes makes me wish I hadn't started a lot of things...Sewing that purse, crocheting that scarf, organizing my sock drawer, listening to all of the songs on my i-pod in one go, reading all of Shakespeares work, painting a bag of seashells, filling a doodle pad completely with drawings of people, making a scrapbook. These are all things that I "wasted" my time on. I mean, If I had never began to crochet that scarf I could have checked my facebook...or watched 4 episodes of CSI, or...something. But...I guess I know how to crochet...and I know how to embroider, and I guess I understand a little bit of Shakespeare, and I found a match for one of my lonely socks.
So...did I really waste my time? I mean, yeah I didn't finish any of those projects, but I still enjoyed them while they lasted. They weren't really pointless because while I was doing those things i was learning, and having fun and being productive. Of course finishing what you start is a good thing to do, but if you are a procrastinator, don't let not finishing stop you from starting.
