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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
I try to live by another proverb, from Kabir, which (badly translated) says
Do what you must do tomorrow, today and what you must do today, now. |
Of course, that saying in Spanish more or less goes as "do not leave for tomorrow what you can do today".
But my joke was centered in the absurd rush hour we seem to perpetually live in nowadays...
I mean I'm a civil engineer and most of the time I just cannot understand how the hell they managed 50 years ago when, today, I want/need this budget in an hour, this calculation this afternoon, those materials tomorrow and those people working there
yesterday. And you know, they built dams, bridges and ports as big as today ones. And 500 years ago they built cathedrals. And 2000 years ago Romans (and descendants) built the Pantheon and Colosseum in Rome, Hagia Sophia in Constantinople or Alcantara's Bridge...
And nowadays, we are a week off for whatever reason, and when we return, it seems as if there had been two tsunamis, a zombie plague and an alien invasion all mixed up...