Procrastination extreme?

You know that magical word. You know that magical feeling. The feeling of putting a homework assignment, feeding the cat, studying, changing the light bulb, cleaning your room, anything, to the side in exchange for doing something much more satisfying. You tell yourself "Eh, I'll do it later." Later comes. "Hm, maybe in a bit." Time passes. "Oh look, a much more interesting activity that seems interesting. Looks like I'll have do put aside doing _______". Except feeding your cat. Don't put aside feeding your cat.You know how grumpy Mr. Whiskers can get if he doesn't get his food.

But why do we do this? Why do we cause ourselves the pain of staying up until the wee hours of the morning, most likely scrambling to do homework that we could have done, ages ago?

It is just in the human nature to put more interesting tasks in front of the less interesting ones. In fact, procrastination has existed longer than the word "procrastination" was created. I guess even  someone put off making a word for it until the 17th century.

Some people can control their urges, however, and manage to stay on task, most of the time. Others, not so much.

Though does procrastinating affect the outcome of the task? It really depends on the person. On one hand, you have the last minute-shove everything onto a piece of paper and slap my name onto it so I can get a decent amount of sleep- procrastinators. On the other hand, you have the- stays up until 4:00 AM to finish everything and make it look like I didn't do this the night before it was due- type of procrastinators. No matter which type you are, it doesn't change the fact that you could have done the task much sooner.

But why do it so soon when you can do it later?