Slacking

Hello my fellow students, I’m CShockley. I want to share what I have learned in the four years we have been here. I learned the lesson of not slacking on schoolwork because of the chances and opportunities I missed out on during my high school career. High school has been tough for all of us due to our first year being Covid year. That year we had a bunch of restrictions and a bunch of remote days that threw everyone off. We also had fewer responsibilities and the bar wasn’t as high as it has become in our final year of high school and on top of it all in our time here. We have had two different assistant principles, pipes burst multiple times, the school flood, and many more things. 

 Over these past four years I missed out on doing some of the after-school activities that I wanted to do, I couldn’t because of school work not being completed which was caused by my slacking. I will be the first to admit I’m a huge procrastinator or slacker whatever you choose to call it. Some of us here have procrastinated at some point in life because we didn’t want to do something that was either boring, hard, or very monotonous, and repetitive. Just ask any English teacher I’ve had in my high school career, especially Mr. Young. A good story that shows an example of that is the story of this year. This year I did golf just like my three other years but this year was a little bit different. I started off better than I did during my other years of high school which in turn caused me to become overconfident, and that my friends was my downfall, I started slacking and then all my work piled up more and more and then I became behind the others and got overwhelmed, fast forward to now I have had to crank out a overwhelming amount of assignments and about three hundred minutes of membean in close to fifteen or twenty days plus revisions so in the grand scheme of things don’t slack it doesn’t end well for you or anyone who ends up slacking on any sort of work for anything.

I know I’m the last person who should be telling anyone to do anything but, slacking doesn’t end well after high school either so don’t slack, some of us are going to college and some are going into the workforce and some are even taking a gap year. Slacking at work and college could have bad consequences because it could cause failing a class in college or getting let go from your job which in the long run or even the short term of things is not a good thing. My final statement of this speech is we all shouldn’t slack even if we don’t want to do something because if we don’t it could come back to bite us later and it could stop us from doing something we might want to do or it might inhibit who we could become.

“Caught slacking!” by cell105 is licensed under CC BY 2.0.