DON’T BE IDLE
One who is idle may be lazy, indolent, sluggish, inactive,
jobless, unemployed, out of work, work-shy, inert or passive,
Nature wants human beings to be active and dynamic. Those who love idleness don’t lead a happy
and laborious life.
The American professor of English Richard
E. Burton (Born 1861) says: Idleness is the bane of body and mind, the nurse of
naughtiness, the chief author of all mischief, one of the seven deadly sins,
the cushion upon which the devil chiefly reposes, and a great cause not only of
melancholy, but of many other diseases; for the mind is naturally active; and
if it be not occupied about some honest business, it rushes into mischief or
sinks into melancholy.
Some other important opinions about
idleness are: (a). It is the hot-bed of temptation, the cradle of disease and
waster of time. (b). It is a constant sin because to spend time in some sort of labour is duty. (c) It is the key of
beggary and the root cause of every evil. (d). Idleness causes perpetual
despair. (e). The way to be nothing is to do nothing.
An English proverb says: An idle brain is the devil’s workshop.
Those who are wedded to idleness
have under-developed personalities. They have viciously wasted the talents with which God blessed
them.
Don’t be idle is not a mere
suggestion; it is a strict warning.
Finally, this quote: Life is a short
day; but it is a working day. Actvity may lead to evil, but inactivity cannot
lead to good,---Hannah More, English
author 1745-1833).
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G.R.Kanwal
7th November 2024
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