An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

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It is better to prevent something from happening at it's early stage than waiting for it to happen first before you start looking for the cure.

It is much easier to prevent something from happening at the first stage than when it has become worse,that's why the saying goes;

"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure"-Ben Franklin.

It wouldn't cost you less than a penny to prevent something from happening when it is in the early stage but when it finally takes it place it would be worth a pound to cure what has happened.

Let me tell you all of a story of a young boy who was ill but didn't take note of it when it was at it's early stage.

Akin lived with his parents in lagos,his parents were rich people who didn't have time to look after their son's health as all they were after is buying expensive clothes and ride the latest cars in town.

They hired a maid to take care of the house and look after their son but the work was too much for the maid as she would wash the clothes,sweep the surrounding and cook food and also run some errand,she was unable to put an eye on the child.

Akin was sick for few days he saw the sickness coming as he noticed the symptoms but his parents were not around as they usually come back late at night when he was asleep,so he didn't have time to treat the sickness at it's early stage as he didn't know what to do.

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The sickness grew worse,that was when his parents noticed that he was sick they rushed him down to the hospital but it was too late as it was a deadly disease which they should have cured at it's early stage before it grew worse but they paid no concern for their kid's.

The doctor couldn't find a solution to the sickness as it was in the worst pace so they lost the child and learnt their lesson to always keep their eyes on their child and not be too attached to making money and buying expensive things.

Let's try to keep our eye on our mental health and whenever we notice any symptoms of illness coming we should try as much as possible to prevent it from taking place so we won't spend alot when the sickness grow worse.

Curing something when it has reached it's peak might cost us alot of money,why don't we just try to cure it at it's early stage??this doesn't only apply to health,it applies to all aspects of live,procrastination is a bad habit that's why we need to avoid it and makes things right today rather than postponing it till the next day and forget about it.

We need to try and avoid Procrastination and always do things now than postponing it till another that,it won't cost us more than a penny to get the problem resolved but when the problem goes worse you would spend more than a pound to cure it,why not prevent it from happening in the first place.

Closing thought.

Procrastination is a bad habit that's delays us from doing the right thing as at when due but instead we choose to postpone it to another day and that's how it continues and then we are left to take care of what happens if we do couldn't do what we are supposed to do at it's early stage.

In our mental health aspect;we need to try as much as possible to take care of our health and whenever we notice any symptoms of illness in our body let's try as much as possible to cure it before it grows to it's peak.

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Comments

I got interested to this article. It's really true that prevention is better than cure. Like what happened to my wife, she suffered with a headache for many months. She could feel that it was connected with her eyes. Last week, we've gone to a doctor for a check up. Only to find out she has astigmatism. Today, she is using eyeglasses.

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2 years ago

Oh so sorry to hear that..she should have gone for a check-up when the headache was in it's early stage and am sure it would have been treated.

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2 years ago

Interestingly I have just read two previous articles with the same lesson - prevention. One is medically related and the other mentally related.

Indeed, we have to take better care of our health physically and mentally.

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2 years ago

We need to take care of our health and whenever we see any signs or symptoms of falling I'll let's try as much as possible to treat it at it's early stage.

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2 years ago

That's what there is also a saying that goes; "A stitch in time saves nine", which means sewing up a torn cloth as soon as possible is better than leaving it because it will keep tearing. Some people will tell you that if something isn't broken then you shouldn't fix it, but why wait for something to go worse before fixing it? The price for curing something is much expensive than just preventing it

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2 years ago

You've said it all buddy....why should we wait for something to be broken before we fix when we can amend it at it's early stage...spot on

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2 years ago

We all know the great line that prevention is better than cure & you have explained it far better.

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2 years ago

Yea...we just need to prevent things from happening when it's in the early stage,it might be hard to cure it when it gets worse.

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2 years ago

Prevention is better that cure so it's better to prevent the bad before it happens

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2 years ago

Well said...let's try to always prevent bad from happening in it's early stage before it gets out of hand.

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2 years ago

Wealth will not save you at the hour of you death,so we need to balance everything inorder to enjoy the fruits of our labor

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2 years ago

That is correct, but I have that kind of attitude too that is why I always regret. The symptoms is the sign there is something wrong and you should act on it. Oh I wish that it gets high value again.

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2 years ago

Try to amend that attitude and always prevent things from happening at it's early stage so we won't regret when it gets worse.

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2 years ago

So so true... because the road to prevention is so easy to take than a road towards care with meds, pain and suffering... and yes, I have been noticing the raise of BCH, makes me happy

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2 years ago

Perfectly said buddy...it's easier to prevent something from happening than curing it,btw the increase also makes me happy also.

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2 years ago

Indeed, it was just the same with the phrase, prevention is better than cure. So we better be attentive and give enough time to our health and most specially to our love ones to prevent regrets, as regrets can't be cured.

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2 years ago

We need to try to prevent ourselves from illness at it's first shot so we won't regret it when it becomes much and cost alot.

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2 years ago