Before reading the article “Later” my mind already went into thinking it would be an article about procrastination and how it’s bad and how to avoid. It’s more than that and it’s not easy seeing the point where the author is trying to talk about procrastination on how it can be bad but also used in a positive way. Like in the article he talked about a magazine editor he knew and one of their writer’s handed in a paper later on then they said they would. After saying that story he closes with a lesson “So a fuller explanation of procrastination really needs to take account of our attitudes to the tasks being avoided.” I understood from that is procrastination comes along with each person’s attitude towards the task they are giving. The confusing part was when he used what he said to explain an example during the Civil war when General George McClellan led an Army during the early years of the war. Then says “ was one of the greatest procrastinators of all time. When he took charge of the Union army, McClellan was considered a military genius, but he soon became famous for his chronic hesitancy.” I didn’t comprehend how someone can be the one of the greatest procrastinators of all time when he told the story of a person heading a time sensitive paper in late and then saying procrastinations takes the account of our attitude of our task. From what I took from that was he was basically blaming procrastination. I would still have to reread to under it more to get a better understanding.
