In the Lyrical Essay we were challenged to convey our own style of poetry, essay, or freewriting to create a certain effect of our choice. We did lots of research on many kinds of lyrical artists like Ross Gay and other great authors. After researching him and other authors of our choice we could make any kind of essay we wanted.

Lyrical Essay

8:30 am: wake up

Snooze…

8:38 am: drag myself out of bed

8:40 am: brush my teeth

8:43 am: check my phone and pee

8:50 am: take pre-workout then go to the gym

9:10 am: get to the gym, sit and wait

9:15 am: start the workout planned

10:05: finish work out

10:10 am: shower with old men at the Y

10:20 am: skate to freestyle hungry

10:40 am: come 10 minutes late to class

10:41 am: say hello to my peers

10:50 am: boot up my computer

10:51 am: phone break.

10:52 am: open social media

11:10 am: start the watercolor painting effect while doing the english homework that was assigned last night 

11:11 am: break

11:20 am: start watching and working carefully

11:33 am: class ends.

11:35 am: bummed that I didn’t do much… start heading to english

11:38 am: enter english

11:39 am: start talking to my friends and distracting myself from the assignment at hand

11:45 am: show Mr. Greco the homework assignment that I scribbled in digital media

12:00 pm: finally pull out the scrawny skeleton of the draft that I have put barely any time into and make an excuse as to why it’s not complete.

12:10 pm: break.

12:15 pm: back to work

12:30 pm: use restroom and go on my phone

12:40 pm: come back for the last five minutes of class

12:45 pm: leave Freestyle and drive to Chipotle to get lunch

1:10 pm: come back to Los Altos High School campus and eat lunch with my Los Altos friends

1:30 pm: go to math

1:33 pm: instantly pull out my laptop and my binder

1:35 pm: I start watching anime, doing health, and kind of taking notes in class.

2:09 pm: this class goes by super fast because my brain is always stimulated

2:30 pm: go to Skateworks, skate, and run online health at the same time

5:30 pm: get home

5:35 pm: look at my backpack and realize there is work to be done. There is math, english, and some digital media homework to do before I do anything tonight.

5:34: pm: phone break

7:30 pm: time to start my trig homework. We started learning about secant and cosecant today and I’m still confused, but I’ll start in 3 minutes.

8:00 pm: End up doing one assignment

9:00 pm: Play games till 2 am and then go to bed.

2:00 am: I’ll finish the rest tomorrow morning before class.

Intention Statement

This lyrical essay is a hermit crab essay about procrastination with an underlying message for mental health. This schedule is a typical Tuesday or Thursday. I tend to start the day super motivated and ready to go, that’s why I go to the gym, it makes me feel good and feel productive. At 8:30 am I snooze the alarm to show signs of laziness and not wanting to do anything, which is true. Getting the initial motivation to do my work and start my day is difficult. Once I am up and ready to go I start with a bang, which is a huge caffeine boost. The prework out has 250 mg of caffeine, this really gets my day started and the only way I can find the energy to work out.

 At 11:10 am: the line gets longer and the text gets smaller. This is meant to represent significance in my brain, by that I mean how much effort it will take to complete the task at hand. Finding the motivation to do things I even enjoy doing is difficult, finding the motivation to do something I do not want to do is even harder. I show that through the small long text, the small text makes it inconvenient to read; this helps you see into my mindset. It seems inconvenient, insignificant, and that it would be better off just not to read it. But everything has to be done eventually, that’s my process of procrastination. This kind of behavior has been happening for a few years now and I have always just assumed that it was a lack of discipline. Then I started noticing that the things that I enjoyed were becoming chore like as well, this really confused me. I did some research and talked to my doctor and I found out that I had serious depression, this was a shock to me. All my life I have been seen as happy, always smiling, and ready for anything. But now I struggle with doing daily tasks that people do with ease. Procrastination and mental health go hand in hand to an extent. Procrastination affects over 20% of the population. Having poor mental health leads to negative and repetitive thoughts. This holds back lots of people, it creates a barrier for doing work that people cannot understand. I asked my peers if procrastination affected them, they said it affected them equally if not more than me. This also changed my perspective, I did research about  how mental health affects procrastination and found out they go hand in hand. This research also helped me learn lots about myself, I learned that if you do not break the loop you’ll just repeat. Taking one step in the right direction is really all you need to get going.

Bibliography

“Design a Azure IOT Indoor Air Quality Monitoring Platform from Scratch.” TECHCOMMUNITY.MICROSOFT.COM, September 14, 2021. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/internet-of-things/design-a-azure-iot-indoor-air-quality-monitoring-platform-from/ba-p/2549733. 

This source is really good because it explains how procrastination works generally. It layed a good foundation of knowledge allowing me to explore further. This source had great information which is why I cited it.

This source gave me so much good information about what to do when you start to notice procrastination and how to start breaking it down. It allowed me to see how easily your brain will convince you to do something else you want to do rather than what you have to do. This is why this source was useful and why I cited it.

 Project, The Good Men. “A Man of Constant Procrastination.” Medium. Change Becomes You, August 6, 2020. https://medium.com/change-becomes-you/a-man-of-constant-procrastination-50ae74ac47ec. 

This source was really good at helping me decide how to change, it went into detail about how to change and what to do next. 

“Anxiety, Depression, and Procrastination among Students …” Accessed December 17, 2021. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/316176332_Anxiety_Depression_and_Procrastination_Among_Students_Rumination_Plays_a_Larger_Mediating_Role_than_Worry. 

This source is what really tied my paper together, it tied mental health and procrastination which really helped my paper. This is why I cited it.