As an avid reader (and a lover of the "Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy") I have to agree with Douglas Adams, one of the greatest writers of fiction works, that deadlines make a lovely whooshing noise as they go by deleting from our minds every thought of turning in that draft on time.
One of the most remarkable quotes on the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy states that “For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Adams relates the dolphins to the humans in the matter that they both think they have accomplished things that make them smarter than the other, when they have actually ignored how smart can the other be. In the end the ones who don't procrastinate and leave the earth on time are the dolphins, whom because of their greater knowledge understood that staying was a terrible idea, whereas men never got into developing a (near future) space program that would allow them to leave earth.
The number one rule on the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is "Don't Panic" which as a usual procrastinator I believe is a rule that everyone should live up to, if we panic about how fast a deadline is approaching I believe we will never reach it with enough preparation as to be able to watch it pass by with a tired smile on our face, stating we really didn't sleep the night before.
“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.” Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Time is an illusion, what we do with it, whether we waste it or not wont really matter at the end. What matters is what we achieve at the end of the day.
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