Essay On Being Late

Every people have their own characteristics, no matter from nature or nurture. For me, I think I have a quite specific character which is always late, always late in meetings, always late in hand in home work…I am quite abnormal than the common people, for most people, being on time is very easy, but for me I can’t. I don’t know why, even though I tried to set the alarm clock be more early, I still get late. In my secondary school life, I always late for school, and even tried to get late for the interviews and mock exams. I have no ideas why I always late. Just as I mentioned, even though I try to set the alarm clock to wake up early then I should have more time and attend the meetings on time, I would do anything else at home fill the spare time but not going out earlier. People said this is

To protect their self-esteem, they would choose procrastination, which can shift the responsibility of failure to ‘I have no enough time’, but not their ability cannot achieve. Once he succeed under the limitation of time, he can get an honor, but not being comment negatively. One move, two gains. (Jones & Berglas, 1978) For my case, I think I am one of a person who afraid being comment negatively. When I small, I tried to study the exams one day before the exam date, but I still could get a high score. When I already late for the meetings, but some friends were later than me, and late for the meetings was very common. Since those happened, I found out that ‘late’ is acceptable, and this concept is being set on my mind. Now a days, I will base on the experiences in my past, I study for the exams and do the assignment very late. Sometimes I can get a high score, sometime low, but getting low scores is more common. When I got a bad result, I would try to explain to my parents, friends and even myself, it was due to ‘I don’t have enough