Day 301 of wisdom
“At times it is folly to hasten, at other times to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.”
Publius Ovidius Naso
Timeliness is the most important thing when it comes to doing a thing. Sometimes, what you do is not as important as when you do it. Haste sometimes drag us backwards as William Shakespeare would say, "Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast." Oftentimes, when we do things in haste we forget the things to do, we do the unnecessary, we think we are running forward while, we are actually running behind. It is not enough to be busy, busyness is not activeness, activity without progress is regress.
Delay might at times be a saviour or a destroyer. Sometimes, it is better to delay or be delayed than to commit errors that may eventually be irreparable. As Thomas Jefferson once said, "Delay is preferable to error." Contrarily, in the consideration of time delay may be too dangerous to bunk with as Benjamin Franklin said, "You may delay, but time will not, and lost time is never found again." In the fight against time delay is dangerous. Sometimes, truth is uncovered in delay, and sometimes lies are birth and groomed as a result of delay.
It is best to do the right thing at the right time; to leave the things that can be left undone without consequences and attend to the most crucial things, and when the time is available you do the things you have left undone having done everything that needs to have been done. Time must not be wasted on irrelevancies while critical things are pending. Haste is not the key to getting ahead, neither is delay the the antidote to errors, but knowing what to do at the right time is the stuff of wise men, we must apply wisdom in everything we do.
In the words of David Steindl-Rast who said, "The challenge is to learn to respond immediately to whatever it is time for. Not to wonder whether you have time for it or whether you like it, but simply to respond when it is time." In everything we do timeliness is best, we must know the things that must be done in the spur of the moment or relinquished forever, and those things that if not done can be done anytime we want to do and can do it. Ultimately, "Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding." (Proverbs 4:7).
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