Frittering.

2 weeks of "study" holidays. Everyone in college experiences this period semester after semester.

For a few who don't give a damn about the exams, its a time of absolute enjoyment and fun and freaking out. For the other few who take the exams very seriously, its all about planning and preparation. There is another set of students who lie between these extremities. Those who sleep everyday without doing anything useful, swearing that the next day would be auspicious to start. They have the inclination to study and make the best of their time but it doesn't happen until it becomes a do or die situation. There is immense planning, forethought yet executing it becomes the worst part of it. They are lured by the need to be entertained though there hasn't been much of an exercise to the brain. Sitting with the books in hand for more than an hour becomes an impossible task. This becomes the time for watching American soaps, Indian Soaps, all kind of movies hours together. Yet there is little satisfaction in being entertained this way since there is a slight guilt because those are "study" holidays. Parents holler at them, the same excuses are given, or even new and creative excuses are thought of due to the vacuum that prevails in the head. Time runs, days grow, they continue the extremity of uselessness without any knowledge of the date or day until it comes to 2 or 3 days before the exams. Hours of playing video games or actual games, goofing around aimlessly for a few hours in the name of 'group study' prevails. Books and materials for study are bought and borrowed which adorn the shelves gathering dust. Morning or waking up time is pushed from 9 to 11, or even 2 or 3pm. Leading nocturnal lives creeps into their normal lifestyle. Those who enjoy reading dig up old newspapers and magazines and novels and read them cover to cover but the academic books are cast aside which long for their touch, which most certainly is prior to the exams. There is regret everyday for not using the copious time aptly, yet there is this 'starting trouble' and 'sitting with the books trouble' that overshadows most of the regret. For people like these things don't happen without coercion. The self-willpower is so meagre, that it doesn't accompany the self-desire in terms of studying. Not to mention that the weather is much of a help either, what with these breezy, cold days, eating home food thrice a day with the addition to catching a bite outside,coupled with hours of online social networking, does it ever shake the barrier in that thick skull which says "Tomorrow, I will start for sure."

Kudos to Procrastination.

Dedicated

To anyone and everyone who have lived through and will live through the so called
"study holidays."

May you live longer to teach the world lessons of laziness and procrastination.