PRONTO!
August 2nd, 2026
One phrase I’ve heard all my life is “Don’t keep until tomorrow what you know you can do today”. It was my grandmother’s favourite catchphrase. Whenever you were assigned a task and you put it forward, she would hit you with one of those. Another of her favourites was “Economy is not disgrace”. That one handled cutting off excesses and handling lustful spending. But she always circled back to “Don’t keep until tomorrow …” Growing older, it’s one lesson I’ve held with me. Especially after going through school, and seeing how postponing reading significantly increases examination workload, causing needless strain before and during examinations. Even in real life, I’ve felt the blowbacks of mindless procrastination. Do I still procrastinate? Very much so. It’s hard doing stuff when you’re overwhelmed, and I often get overwhelmed. At this point, it feels like it’s my default response to things that are seemingly bigger than me. And oh how many really big things I have to confront! And how small they always make me feel. The world really does make me feel small. I think it is supposed to, I don’t know. I hope you get the gist here though. It helps when you do stuff as soon as possible.
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I think now of things that I do quickly. Like walking, especially when people are held up behind me. I really don’t leave home much, and whenever I do, I sure want to get to my destination as soon as I can. I only attempt to walk leisurely when I’m taking a stroll. I also sometimes talk quickly. I don’t always rush my words, but when a moment is intense, it just happens. At times, it’s hard keeping up with a train of thought, and speaking fast just lets my brain work in overdrive to organise my thoughts and get the right words ready. These days though, I record myself speak and try to reduce my tempo.
When writing too, I write quickly. As soon as a line of thought shows up, I flesh it out and go on with it till I get out all I can in the moment before I lose it. It hurts, losing ideas before you can record them. I imagine ideas as butterflies, flying from person to person till anyone catches them. And I have lost a lot of these. The same way you sometimes struggle to remember a dream after you wake, one you were fully immersed in just moments before. And you know you’ve lost it forever.
The rains today were crazy! It fell all night yesterday, and all mornings today. As a result, church was noticeably less populated than usual. Once in a while, someone would rush in when the rain temporarily subsides, and then the rains would resume drizzling again. As at when I was returning home, it was still raining. I’ve been driving back home from church more these days. I did last Sunday and the week before. However, I didn’t today because of the rain. I don’t think I’m ready to test driving in low visibility conditions just yet. Anyone thinking what I’m thinking too? “Don’t keep until tomorrow … Do it as soon as possible”. Well, this is different. 😂
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