First day: Oh God! It’s a boring task. I’ll do it tomorrow.

Second day: I need not worry. I’ve got abundant time left. I’ll do it tomorrow.

Third day, fourth day...

In this way, many days pass due to our common habit of procrastination.

This habit of saying ‘tomorrow’ leads us nowhere.

Tomorrow is a simple word. It is a universal truth that tomorrow comes, but it does not come in the lives of many. Here’s an example — in today’s world many people have become selfish and greedy to earn more and more by hook or by crook. If they catch become ill, they don’t bother about it saying they would get the medical check-up ‘tomorrow’. They keep saying tomorrow till they finally realise that tomorrow is too late because the disease has already eaten even their today.

Even students are infected with this habit of saying ‘tomorrow’ be it preparation for a small class test or the final exams. When tomorrow arrive, they realise they are not at all prepared. They panic and in the end spoil their exams. Students who run after ‘tomorrow’ are left behind.

In some families, parents give their children this ‘tomorrow’ brush-off. When a child asks for something, they usually say tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow until the child get so upset that it brings on a psychological effect. S/He could develop a negative attitude about her/himself and start to do silly things in order to catch the attention of his/her parents. When parents realise their fault, it may sometimes be too late.

We gain nothing by keeping today’s work for tomorrow. The more we say tomorrow, the more and more tomorrow gets far away from us. The habit of saying tomorrow for doing any task has become our culture and we don’t try to get rid of it. In order to achieve our goal or to become successful, we should not wait for tomorrow to do any work. Whatever task we have, we should try to complete those today because tomorrow may not be in our fate. — Nishant Jha, Class IX, Nobel Academy