Day 256 of wisdom
“Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.”
Leonardo da Vinci
A farmland that is left uncultivated will lose its nutrients to the growth of unwanted plants. Anything left unused will lose its value, strength, and usefulness. Thomas Edison once said, "The perils of overwork are slight compared with the dangers of inactivity." it is far more dangerous to be inactive, and idle than to be too busy getting something done. The key to maintaining relevance, and usefulness is to keep getting busy and useful. There is a popular saying that "an idle hand is the devil's workshop." if a man is idle, he becomes an instrument of evil vices.
The people who want good things do not sit and expect good things to come to them, they go out, roll up their sleeves, and get busy, they work hard and fight for those things they want. One who choose to be idle rather than put his body, brain, and mind to work in the creation of a better tomorrow does not rest, rather he prepares for the grave, he is a walking dead. Idleness, and inactivity are great enemies of humanity.
"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing." are the words of Theodore Roosevelt when talking about activity, and inactivity. In that moment when the privilege to decide on what to do about a thing beckons, doing the right thing is your best choice, but instead of doing nothing at all it is better you do the wrong thing, because somehow you learn, and get unpriced experience from doing the wrong thing, while you become redundant in doing nothing at all. It is better you do it wrong than doing nothing at all.
Chuck Close once said, "Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself." most of the times, it is in the busyness that we get the breakthrough ideas that we sincerely seek for our dreams, and projects. Our minds get broadened in the process, our brains get sharpened on the move, our body gets stronger on the job. So, instead of staying idle get busy, and get better.
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