Stephanie Ann Marie L.

Duenas
FM09205- Speech1

March 9, 2011
Prof. Bong Villanueva

Specific Goal:
1.) I would like the audience to understand the Cancer of Procrastination.
2.) I want to persuade my audience including myself to avoid procrastinating because later on it can
cause problems.
Thesis Statement:
1.) The explanation of the student's procrastinating which is comparable to cancer.
2.) Procrastination should be avoided because it can not only lead to troubles but also time is wasted by
delaying works that should be done earlier.
The students Cancer of Procrastination
Fellow classmates, professor Bong Villanueva, Goodmorning!
I remember during my high school days there was a time when our vice-president, Dr. Fabiana G.
Sunit, delivered her educational speech for the students to be aware of the right conduct and attitudes
of an excellent student. In her speech, there was this remarkable statement that lingered in my mind
until now, she said: Every student has an illness which is the Cancer of Procrastination. I'm sure
you're wondering what illness is this? What physical aspect of our body does it affects? What are its
symptoms? How many stages does it develops? Does it need chemotherapy? These questions don't
matter at all because none of these are related to the term Cancer of Procrastination.
Procrastination is defined as to put off doing something, or especially out of habitual carelessness
or laziness. In psychology, procrastination refers to the act of replacing high-priority actions with tasks
of low-priority, and thus putting off important tasks to a later time. On the other hand, cancer is an any
type of malignant growth or tumor, caused by abnormal and uncontrolled cell division: it may spread
through the lymphatic system or bloodstream to other parts of the body. We all know that in life we
should not take all things literally such as the term Cancer of Procrastination, it is called as such
because the negative attitude procrastinating of students is described like a cancer because of some
grounds and similarities. Procrastination is an evil influence that spreads dangerously among the
students same as cancer that is spreading quickly in a humans body and would lead to a severe
situation if at an early stage it is neglected . Procrastination is a common negative attitude of the
students, majority of the students same as cancer, according to Manila Bulletin,cancer is a common
disease in the world. Cancer is barely curable if deferred in earlier stages same as procrastinating, it is
difficult to change if students are accustomed in doing it. Cancer is said to be a life's menace, if you
have such disease your life's in a threat or danger, same as doing procrastinations you'll encounter
problems and troubles. Cancer causes bad effects in person's life same as procrastinating. Although
genuine cancer will affect a person physically, the cancer of procrastination will affect the person's
lifestyle. Take for instance in my experience, I used to procrastinate a lot of important things, until now I
still do it, probably barely. During my high school days we had a group science project , my teacher
assigned it a month ago before its deadline, so there's still a lot of time, I always thought there's always
tomorrow and since it's a group work I thought they've already done it. The deadline came up
eventually, we haven't finished it yet, we depended on each other but unfortunately none of us made it,
we passed our project unfinished and got the lowest grade. We talked,realized and learned a lesson.
We should have the initiative to do the work. We should have not depended. We should not blame
each others fault. We should have done it earlier. We should have prioritized our project first. Lastly, we
should have not Procrastinated.
Again there was this remarkable statement: Every student has an illness which is the Cancer of
Procrastination, I've heard this for the past few years, now before this disease gets worse, I want to
persuade every student including myself to alleviate this cancer of procrastination, lets make a change,
lets prioritize the important things, stop procrastinating. This can't be treated immediately, it takes time
so let us heal this cancer by starting first to change ourselves, to make a good model for everyone to be
followed, subsequently we'll change this negative attitude into a positive one and hoped to hear a
statement: Every student has an illness which is the Cancer of Immediate Action. So fellow students
hope you understand and lets practice not to procrastinate because why do it tomorrow if you can do it
now. Thank you.