Are you a procrastinator?

That is, do you wait until the last day or hour or minute to do something?

If you’re guilty of this behavior, it’s fine, there are many like you. In fact, according to Psychology Today, about 20 percent of the population identify themselves as “chronic procrastinators”, which means if waiting to do something for no reason was a sport, they’d be in the major leagues.

In most cases, it’s all fine and dandy to procrastinate. Writing a thesis paper or buying gifts — tasks like theses — in the long run, aren’t effected too greatly. Additionally, there is usually ample time to play with. If not weeks or days, at the very least, hours or minutes, no?

Jumping out of a flying aircraft hundreds if not thousands of feet in the air is slightly different. In this situation, a procrastinator has but seconds to … wait … lest they gamble with their own life and make pulling the cord of a vital parachute a less-than-urgent event.

That would just be stupid. Or death wishy.

The Philippine paratrooper in the following video, as far as we can tell however, wasn’t procrastinating whatsoever. Upon jumping from a helicopter, he or she found themselves in a simple yet terrifying predicament: their main parachute was tangled and wouldn’t fully open.

Thankfully, the reserve chute is a “thing”. The art of pulling it is less than a smooth movement and more of a desperate one, as gravity races one’s body faster and faster to the hard reality of the impending ground and — without the manmade plume — certain grisly death.

Get on the edge of your seat and hit “play”: