Sanjeev Satgainya

Kathmandu:

The world is full of wonders. The biggest brain in this world, the purest heart of this universe and the sophisticated thinkers of this earth have let us feel proud of what they have achieved. What if Alexander Fleming, though, serendipitously discovered, had not put an effort to look at what it was when he found penicillin? If Louis Pasteur, who led the discovery of the first vaccine, had procrastinated, would the world have been free from lots of diseases? Shakespeare’s finest creations came out when he instantly penned them and our literature would have been incomplete without Laxmi Prasad Devkota’s greatest works.

What makes these people great is they never thought of putting off things for tomorrow. It is rightly said: ‘The man who procrastinates struggles with ruin’ and things done in right time with perfection always pays superbly whereas things piled up for tomorrow not only get stale but also might be ultimately impossible to finish.

Yet, there are people who think procrastination is not that bad in terms of increasing productivity and bringing good end result. What is the wrong if a manager after a hectic working day thinks of shifting some decisions for tomorrow? Aren’t there chances that he comes up with some innovative ideas putting forth great decisions of his lifetime?

One of the thinkers had proposed an idea of deliberate procrastination. Putting things off for next day or next time might induce one to keep track of things going on and might erase the habit forgetfulness. The theory might have been adopted thinking that once we accomplish our jobs, we completely get out of touch of that very task. Sounds reasonable but, things that are of optimum priority must be accomplished as soon as possible.

To put things off for later whether is right or wrong might raise a good issue for a hot debate but the conventional rule says that ‘no procrastination to succeed’. The greatest people of this world had a tendency to do things at the right time and fruitful examples abound. As a Scottish proverb goes: “What may be done at any time will be done at no time”, why not finish it then and there when it is going to be done in no time.