Saturday, June 30, 2007

If tomorrow never comes.

Ask the guy who made elctricity, why do we procrastrinate?

A couple hundred years ago Benjamin Franklin shared with the world the secret of his success “never leave that till tomorrow” he said,”which you can do today” this is the man who discovered the electricity, you think more of us would listen to what he had to say.

I don’t know why we put things off but if I had to guess I’d say it has a lot to do with fear, fear of failure, fear of pain, fear of rejection… sometimes the fear is just of making a decision because what if you’re wrong, what if you’re making a mistake you can’t undo.

"The early bird catches the worm; a stitch in time saves nine."

"He who hesitates is lost."

We can't pretend we haven't been told, we've all heard the proverbs, heard the philosophers, heard our grandparents warning us about wasted time, heard the damn poets urging us to seize the day.

Still sometimes we have to see for ourselves, we have to make our own mistakes, we have to learn our own lessons, we have to sweep today's possibility under tomorrow's rug until we can't anymore, until we finally understand for ourselves what Benjamin Franklin meant, that "knowing is better than wondering", That "waking is better than sleeping" and that even the biggest failure, even the worst most intractable mistakes beats the hell out of never trying.

12 comments:

Jason said...

dpmo... u still cudnt do the program in time

Vikrant Dadawala said...

dats right...and u still havnt returned my LOTR

Clezevra said...

ever felt the excrutiating embarassment ofailing, or the inability to do anything. it happens to everyone and sometimes it's better to 'wait and watch'!

Safdar said...

ur growing up.

Maximum Boy said...

But i think this ones got no climax... i think i can do better.

david santos said...

My desires of good luck Mrs. Pratibha Patil to govern the great Indina Nation.
Good luck

Safdar said...

this david santos comments on evry budy with the same thing!!...and his BLOG is in spannish!

Trish. said...

i hate proverbs.

compare "look before you leap" with "he who hesitates is lost"

where's the sense of it all?

Vikrant Dadawala said...

i hate proverbs too. and i hate this post as well. but im too polite to say it.

Unknown said...

dude did it ever occur 2 u dat watever d hell it is dat makes ppl put things off for another day is plain laziness??

Arpana said...

*agrees wit aayush*
whoever he is..lol

Maximum Boy said...

i meant decisions that had a profound impact. not mundae things in life doing homework!