In the past, people that Ariel had been unable to spare a shred of empathy for were procrastinators.
Why keep putting things off if you could handle them immediately? Especially in relationships. If a person had something to say to their partner, it was best to just come out and say it rather than wait.
Ariel had always felt quite certain in that belief, especially since she'd had quite a few experts backing her up. All of them stating that procrastination, no matter the area in life, was never a good thing. But now she realized that she had been a bit too hasty in judging those who always found something else to do instead of dealing with something that was a main problem in their lives.
