Tardiness: the Ever-Growing American Scourge
I hate being late. And I hate it when other people are late.
Tardiness is increasingly becoming a international stereotype of Americans. Our airplanes leave late, our buses arrive late, our students come to school late, our workers come to work late, our subways are late, our patients are late to their doctor appointments, our homework assignments and our work are late... everything seems to be becoming late!!!
And frankly, it's ridiculous.
The reasons for all this tardiness seem too simple to be true, but, believe it or not, they are as true as true can be. More and more Americans are sleeping in later. More and more Americans are procrastinating completing assignments. More and more Americans are not organizing their time wisely, and are overwhelming themselves with hobbies and activities that cut into precious time they need to finish their work. They're staying up later, cutting into the amount of sleep they need each night.
Solutions to this problem are simple. Instead of trying to get better at all of our talents and hobbies all at once, we should be focussing on getting our current assignments and projects finished. I'm not saying we shouldn't be improving our abilities and talents, but we should be working on them one or two or three at a time. Afterall, the average American is supposed to be living into his eighties. Eighty years is more than enough time to work on hobbies and talents that never really have a final due date. Assignments, projects, homework, and labs, however, do have due dates, and should take the priority. If we focus on these things first, doing our hobbies in our spare time, we'll all be less stressed, get more sleep, and ultimately be on time. No more tardiness and no more embarrasing stereotypes.
I hate being late. And I hate it when other people are late.
Tardiness is increasingly becoming a international stereotype of Americans. Our airplanes leave late, our buses arrive late, our students come to school late, our workers come to work late, our subways are late, our patients are late to their doctor appointments, our homework assignments and our work are late... everything seems to be becoming late!!!
And frankly, it's ridiculous.
The reasons for all this tardiness seem too simple to be true, but, believe it or not, they are as true as true can be. More and more Americans are sleeping in later. More and more Americans are procrastinating completing assignments. More and more Americans are not organizing their time wisely, and are overwhelming themselves with hobbies and activities that cut into precious time they need to finish their work. They're staying up later, cutting into the amount of sleep they need each night.
Solutions to this problem are simple. Instead of trying to get better at all of our talents and hobbies all at once, we should be focussing on getting our current assignments and projects finished. I'm not saying we shouldn't be improving our abilities and talents, but we should be working on them one or two or three at a time. Afterall, the average American is supposed to be living into his eighties. Eighty years is more than enough time to work on hobbies and talents that never really have a final due date. Assignments, projects, homework, and labs, however, do have due dates, and should take the priority. If we focus on these things first, doing our hobbies in our spare time, we'll all be less stressed, get more sleep, and ultimately be on time. No more tardiness and no more embarrasing stereotypes.
posted by dr.scholl at 16:23
3 Comments:
Are you trying to tell me something, Buster??? :)
=D You know me Nate. I'm LINDSAY. I can't stand being late at all. This morning I forgot that the clock in my car was about 3 minutes fast and so I was freaking out because I thought I was going to be late. I wasn't late (thank heavens) and then I had enough time to wander around and talk to you! (aren't you glad I wasn't late?! Just kidding. On to the next blog! Unless I've read it already!)
one of my teachers once told me that "you are late because you simply think that whatever caused you to be late is more important" and "to be early is to be on time, to be on time is to be late, and to be late is to be..." i forgot that last part. I hate being late, and I hate when other people are late too.
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