Do It Now!!!

This is a good motto for all who are inclined to be dilatory on unpunctual. "Do it now" Doing things at the right time is the es­sence of punctuality; and punctuality is just the opposite of pro­crastination. This means “putting off till tomorrow”. Procrastina­tion is always a Fault - a Fault of laziness and dilatoriness; for it always means putting off for to-morrow what ought to be done to­day. If it is not firmly checked, Procrastination soon grows into a bad habit, it may be due to laziness, or to the illusion that there will be plenty of time in the Future to do all we have to do. The lazy man consoles himself with all he will do, some day, as the Negro said "Next week's going to be a mighty busy time" A Spanish prov­erb runs "To - morrow is often the busiest day in the week" But for lazy Folks to-morrow and next week never come.

That we shall have more time to morrow is an illusion. To­morrow will have its own work to be done and there will be no time to do yesterday's work as well. Every time we put off the work we ought to do to-day we are piling up and find the arrears of work undone are too big to be overtaken. So in the end "lazy folks take the most pains"

"Procrastination" it is said "is the thief of time". We have only a limited amount of time at our disposal; and every hour we waste in idleness is "stolen" from our little stock by that thief Pro­crastination. Time wasted is lost.

The lazy man says in his heart "Never do to-day what you can put off for tomorrow" or even "never put off for to-morrow what you can put off for the day after to-morrow". But the wise man takes as his motto the old Proverb. "Never put off for to - morrow what you can do to-day", this is a sound idea, and worthy of adop­tion. So let your motto be "Do it now"!

N-ko-ra returns
Nishan Shanaka Korala Gamage
writes to
Spontaneous Combustion
from Sri lanka