OVERWORK IS INJURIOUS
It was U.S. Secretary of, State Charles
Evans Hughes (1862-1948), who said: “ I believe in work, hard work and long
hours of work. Men do not break down from overwork, but from worry and
dissipation.“
The English writer Jerome K. Jerome (1859-1927)
almost agreed with this view when he said: ‘I like work; it fascinates me. I
can sit and look at it for hours.”
According to the Polish-British
novelist Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) “A man is a worker. If he is not that he is
nothing.”
Surely, it cannot be denied that everybody in this world must work
profitably to keep his body and soul together.
However, overwork is not allowed by Nature. If day is meant for work, night is
meant for rest and recoupment. Overwork can cause not only fatigue but even
death. Even machines have to be stopped to avoid outbursts. .
To conclude, here is a poem titled “Leisure”
by the English poet William Henry Davies (1871-1940): It reads as follows:
“What
is this life if, full of care,/ We have no time to stand and stare?
No
time to stand beneath the boughs/And stare as long as sheep and cows:
No
time to see, when woods we pass,/Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass.
No
time to see, in broad daylight,/Streams full of stars, like skies at night:
No time to turn at Beauty’s
glance,/And watch her feet, how they can dance:
No time to wait till her
mouth can/Enrich that smile her eyes began ?
A poor life this if, full
of care,/We have no time to stand and stare.
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G.R.Kanwal
5th June 2024
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