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How to use procrastination for good?

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“Procrastination” is one of the few words that describes exact issues with our generation, but can we use the same for good reasons? Let’s find out. According to Wikipedia, “ Procrastination  is the avoidance of doing a task that needs to be accomplished by a certain deadline. It could be further stated as a habitual or intentional delay of starting or finishing a task despite knowing it might have negative consequences.” and since we are supposed to finish important work at time, this becomes an issue. But in my opinion, Procrastination must be an ability of mind to explore the new horizons of the task it is provided to do, it wants to dive deeper into it to do its basic job — “to serve you better” and when this repeats itself, it gets programmed and we call it a habit, this is a perfect example of human suffering its potential. After all these good comments about procrastination, the question is, if it is a good thing then why we still suffer it and its answer should be easily gu...

What happens when a celebrity kills himself?

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I heard the news of actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s suicide this afternoon, this left me shocked and speechless. It’s shocking that someone with so much could be so sad: He was young, beautiful, talented, wealthy, and widely loved. And the very fact that he lead a film about preventing suicide last year and it became commercially successful and was declared a blockbuster, so the last person we believe who can commit suicide was this person! I’m not going to the details of what might be the reasons behind it but this effects mental health of large population after the suicide of someone you admired or feel similar to or find yourself in a critical mental situation, depression and specially in this era of corona, it is even more disturbing. When a famous Hong Kong entertainment celebrity, who committed suicide on 1 April 2003, a population‐based survey was conducted between December 2003 and July 2004. Respondents were asked about their suicidal ideation, psychological well‐being, life even...