Better Do It Soon

Urgent: Needing to be attended to immediately, or very soon.

It’s not the last step. When the car is heading towards us without sign of braking we don’t have time to think ”it is urgent that I remove myself from this incoming disaster”. We just act and jump out the way. Hopefully on time. It’s our primitive response to very imminent danger.

But there are various degrees of urgency and they often come with some kind of warning. There is time to act, we are told, or circumstances suggest, and we Better Do It Soon.

There might be a few of these kind of warnings. But at some point, later down the line, “do it soon” turns into, “do it now”.

And if we are unprepared…if we’ve ignored all the Soon warnings…then when the Now moment comes…we tend to panic. We tend to respond in the primitive fashion - we jump - with no further opportunity to think it through. And sometimes it’s simply too late.

Thinking it through ahead of time is hard, I find. But there is no out of control car on my immediate horizon. Just the potential for one or two. So I’d rather put the hard thinking in, and where necessary the hard action, now.

It’s like the proverb -

The Early Bird Avoids The Psychotic Kamikaze Worm.