DURING Short Cuts’ grade school days, he and his classmates were advised to be punctual in attending classes.
As a rule, Short Cuts was made to believe further that to be punctual in every activity that one does, it must always be embedded into his mind if only to have a compliant and yielding society.
This has always been the reminders that Short Cuts received from his mentors during his Grade School days until graduation in college.
With more reasons when he began working as a paid employee. Not only was he personally reminded by himself of his punctuality in his workplace. He was already within the scrutinizing eyes of his co-employees and that of his employer.
But what about those professionals being invited as Guest in an affair? Is he expected to be conscious of his arrival time for the event so that he must arrive 10 or 20 minutes before the start of the program?
To Short Cuts’ mind, definitely YES!
And in the case of the hosts of the affair, will they be expecting the Guest not to arrive as scheduled?
Definitely, NO. This is Short Cuts honest observation. As hosts they want the event to be finished the soonest.
So, other than unforeseen circumstances that may have happened to the Guest, hosts greatly expect their Guests to be prompt on his arrival time. If in the negative, therefore, who and what `must have caused the delay?
As a retired politician Short Cuts can now engage in a free-wheeling discussion on this topic. He, too, was once a politician before and had been subjected to invitations in barangay and town programs.
It is a fact that politicians are often late during programs as invited Guest speaker. But, it is also a fact that their tardiness to the affair were not of their own making. More often, these are caused by attending concerns of other people not previously calendared or scheduled.
Or, attending LATE to an already scheduled subject matter. Instead of a concern having been scheduled at 1:00 o’clock in the afternoon between the politician and the electorate, the latter arrives one hour later.
Consequently, the poor politician suffers the consequences. He, in most cases, earns the gripes of the listening public on punctuality issue.
The result?
The poor politician may no longer be invited again!
Short Cuts, therefore, has this to remind and advice everyone . . . . . If only to preserve PUNCTUALITY as a lifetime virtue, adhere to it.
Be prompt always!
