Distractions

Life is full of distractions. I am a procrasitnator so naturally I am a slave to distractions. Though mine are generally for my own betterment. I usually read instead of doing most of the mandatory school work I am assigned, as evidenced with my blog itself. I love to read, and I do not only read for class I have to have a book that I am reading because I chose it. I am far more likely to read the entire thing and I usually read it more often. Which is a hard distraction to get rid of. I have gotten better at it mostly because I am in desperate need of something new to read. So I swallow the books I have been assigned in single sittings; something I have not done the entire five years I have been at this school. Which is really a shame except that the english department tends to repeat a lot of books from class to class. I have had to read Hamlet in at least one english class for the last six semesters, kind of ridiculous. I know its good, obviously, but seriously the department needs to have some kind of annual meeting so the student isn't forced to rehash the same material over and over again.
Hmph distractions once again. I have come to the decision that distractions should be viewed and sometimes followed but they are only the things that deviate us from what we want to be doing in our lives. So if you would rather be on Facebook instead of writing your paper then the paper is the distraction. Being forced to an action is usually what causes us to seek something else to do. It is human nature, especially in America, to be defiant and wish to follow our own path. Whatever gets in the way or our path or that makes us deviate from it is a distraction. However, a distraction may become our new path, that is how life is.