447 Words Short Essay on Procrastination
This long word literally means putting “forward” to “tomorrow”; for it is derived from the Latin word, eras, “tomorrow”, and prefix pro, “before” or “forward.”Of course it is sometimes necessary and wise to postpone a decision or an action, where hasty conclusions would be foolish; but “procrastination” always means putting things off tomorrow which ought to be done today. ADVERTISEMENTS: It is the fault of dilatoriness and laziness, that leads us to shirk the doing of present duties and inclines us to defer them to some future time.Thus the fault of procrastination is just the opposite of the virtue of punctuality. A punctual man takes care to do what has to be done exactly at the right time; the dilatory man never does anything at the right time, but always…