You are sure to be diligent in your work and performing daily routines, but however enthusiastic and hard-working you may be, occasionally you want to put aside a list of must-do-it-right-now things, stop hurrying and worrying about being punctual and industrious, and just snuggle down on the couch wishing “to leave until tomorrow what you can do today”.
Or, on the contrary, you feel distressed every time you have to get up in the morning and go to work or school? Is it your case that Her Majesty Idleness was born some minutes before your arrival into this world?
Can these five proverbs really drive you mad when looked through, because they have a vague allusion to your alter ego – procrastination?
- A lazy sheep thinks its wool heavy.
- He who hesitates is lost.
- The cat would eat fish and would not wet paws.
- An idle brain is the devil’s workshop.
- Procrastination is the thief of time.
Whatever group of people you might belong to, I hope you will find pleasure in reading my piece of poetry, which is a versified translation of the poem “Len”, composed by the Polish poet and writer Jan Brzechwa.
The Lazybones, sluggish and slack,
Has been lying on his back.
All day long he has been busy
Doing his best to take it easy.
As a result,
School has been skipped,
Homework’s delayed,
The shirt’s unzipped,
The poem has been left unlearnt,
The shoes – unlaced, the essay – blurred;
Thus, languid, tired and inert,
He could pronounce but a word.
He stays disgruntled
And dismayed:
It’s hard like hell
To procrastinate.
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