TAIHOA! TAIHOAI!

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 228, 29 September 1905, Page 2

TAIHOA! TAIHOAI!

(to the editor.) Siftf-—Almost every day of our exis- , ence we observe in the lives of some pteson, or possibly in our own, the disastrous effects of procrastination, of i putting off until too late the good ini tentions that should have been carried i out at the right time. It is pitiful to see a grand life ruined and wasted through any cause, but more terrible to see it drift down the streim into • obscurity owing to the lack of courage ' to act nt the opportune moment. That commonplace statement, *• I ini tead to,” has robbed millions of itheir i ' success. It is not enough to intend to ;do a thing some time. What is worth ' doing is worth doing now and doing well. Of what use are opportunities if they are not grasped and acted upon before they pass away ? The failures ( of life, which are washed up on the ! shores as wreckage, are the people who were always intending to do something. Intentions without actions are worse than useless—better carry one humble plan to success than to have a t thousand intentions that are allowed to fade away. Our lives are short, and every hour that we waste is lost for ever. It is our duty to improve every moment. If you have been intending to do something, do it now ; remember this is the only moment you are sura ! of. Taihoa is a motto only suited to tbe useless, lazy and careless. It is well to always remember tha; the road to Hades is paved with good intentions. At the Medical Club meeting recently, this taihoa motto war brought forcibly w our notice. Some one at that meeting wished to delay the business to a more convenient time, but several of those present objected, consequently the man with the good iotentions (without action) was overruled.—Yours, etc., G. H. MACKENZIE