It
has been said , ‘Never put off for tomorrow what you can do today ‘ . Work does
not disappear if we postpone it . Once day or the other it has done . The more
we postpone doing something , the more the work piles up . Finally when we do
tackle the work , the amount seems too much . We then have to spend hours
working under great strain and stress . Very often , we end up completing the
work in a shoddy manner .It might also happen that the work may never get done
, just because we delayed doing it when it was required to be done .
Sometimes
a very heavy price has be paid for delaying things . The person who delays
insuring his house will regret it when it is gutted by a sudden fire . putting
off the treatment of a disease may make it worse , and many even result in
death . the student who goes on postponing studies will need to burn the
midnight oil for last minute preparations before the examination . And even
then , he or she may not have time enough to cover the entire portion .
When some work is delayed , the time which
would have profitably used is wasted . time wasted is time lost forever . putting things off robs us of the
opportunity of doing things . Hence procrastination , in this proverb , is
referred to as a ‘thief of time ‘ . It is a proverb that we would do well to
remember at all times , for it warns us against the dangers of delay in action
, and stresses the importance of timely action .