Action at the right and required moment saves a lot of bother in future. Delayed action, adds to the problems and aggravate them, where after it becomes so difficult to deal with them or tackle them. This saying has a very rational meaning.
Your shirt gets a little torn at a place as you scratched against a thorny bush. Just on reaching home you take it to the darner it may even be your mother and sister and she just nicely puts a few stitches and it all looks in order.
If that is not done in time the torn part may further increase and then it may become difficult to repair it and give it the decent wearable look. One catches cold and develops a sore throat. You at once soothe it with a hot water saline gargle and by morning you would find yourself relieved. Or you just take on antibiotic tablet and you are well for your morning work.
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But you grow lethargic, postpone the gargle or the taking of the tablet, you keep coughing throughout the night and find yourself running slight temperature in the morning. Urgent matters required to be attended to in the morning and the day have to be put off may be you have lost a job for the interview of which you were to appear at ten in the morning.
Just a little care would have made you feel well as also might have got you the job you have failed on two fronts just by failing in little timely action. And now it has taken you three days to recover from cough, cold and fever. A stitch in time would have saved you from nine. Timely action may need a little effort but saves a lot more efforts which may be forced upon by this in-time neglect.