Procrastination is the action of not doing and it's a common theme among life and especially literature. In Hamlet, procrastination is a crucial factor to the plot, for if Hamlet didn't procrastinate and get his revenge on his uncle when he had the opportunity maybe the play wouldn't have ended with everyone he knew and loved dying along with himself. In The Importance of Being Earnest, Algernon and Jack procrastinate in telling Gwendolen and Cecily that their names weren't actually Earnest and this leads to Gwendolen and Cecily to meet and find out that they think they are engaged to the same man. Not only is the concept of procrastination affect the consequences in literature but also in our modern day society, as every modern teenager, myself included, has procrastinated at least once in they're lives. Procrastination also isn't considered a bad thing in our modern society in fact there is The Procrastination Association which expresses the advantages of procrastination and even has a creed which followers live their lives by.
In my opinion procrastination is necessary thing in everyone's life because everyone has a problem that they can't face without preparation, in my opinion procrastination is like a preparation period, and sometimes it's necessary. This doesn't mean that I believe that procrastination is all good, if you look at Hamlet and Algernon/Jack, you realize that too much procrastination can be a bad thing. My main point is that no one can go their whole lives prepared to handle a problem right on the spot, they need to put it off, whether out of fear of the results or to prepare themselves for the problem, but everyone procrastinates once in a while and it's a necessary part of human life.
Good Mike.
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