From Robert Grudin’s Time and the Art of Living:

„Every time we postpone some necessary event whether we put off doing
the dinner dishes till morning or defer an operation or some difficult labor or
study – we do so with the implication that present time is more important than
future time… There is nothing wrong with this, as long as we know what
we are doing, and as long as the present indeed holds some opportunity more
important than the task we delay… Seen more extensively, habitual delay
can clutter our lives, leave us in the annoying position of always having to do
yesterdays chores. Disrespect for the future is a subtly poisonous disrespect
for self, and forces us, paradoxically enough, to live in the past.“ 

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