Thought 173: Timely action is important

Take, for instance, a student who snoozes all through a semester. When the exams are only a few days away, he finds that he has a lot of work to do. Worry takes over at this stage. Worry does not allow him to concentrate on his studies even at this stage. This increases his worry even further. Expectedly, he does not do too well in the exams. This is a typical scenario when you become alive to events only when it is too late. Here, you are running your life - you are not managing it. You have lost control. You cannot prevent events happening when you come to know about them when it is too late. It is said that some people make things happen, some others watch things happening and the rest ask, "what happened?" You allow a situation to build progressively to a level, when you get frightened by it - and you become stunned into inaction. You allow a crisis to build up and then, feel overwhelmed by it; the Frankenstein syndrome. Human endeavor seems constantly involved in either committing a mistake or correcting a mistake. This is because people are either scared to think or they are plain lazy. The next thought is about “We are all transceivers”