why do we need a timer to call an action once?

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I was going through the ros2 docs and im a little confused on why do we need to use a wall_timer() if we want to call an action once. Why can't we just call the send_goal() function without the use of a timer()

namespace action_tutorials_cpp
{
class FibonacciActionClient : public rclcpp::Node
{
public:
  using Fibonacci = action_tutorials_interfaces::action::Fibonacci;
  using GoalHandleFibonacci = rclcpp_action::ClientGoalHandle<Fibonacci>;

  explicit FibonacciActionClient(const rclcpp::NodeOptions & options)
  : Node("fibonacci_action_client", options)
  {
    this->client_ptr_ = rclcpp_action::create_client<Fibonacci>(
      this,
      "fibonacci");

    this->timer_ = this->create_wall_timer(
      std::chrono::milliseconds(500),
      std::bind(&FibonacciActionClient::send_goal, this));
  }

  void send_goal()
  {
    using namespace std::placeholders;

    this->timer_->cancel();

    if (!this->client_ptr_->wait_for_action_server()) {
      RCLCPP_ERROR(this->get_logger(), "Action server not available after waiting");
      rclcpp::shutdown();
    }

    auto goal_msg = Fibonacci::Goal();
    goal_msg.order = 10;

    RCLCPP_INFO(this->get_logger(), "Sending goal");

    auto send_goal_options = rclcpp_action::Client<Fibonacci>::SendGoalOptions();
    send_goal_options.goal_response_callback =
      std::bind(&FibonacciActionClient::goal_response_callback, this, _1);
    send_goal_options.feedback_callback =
      std::bind(&FibonacciActionClient::feedback_callback, this, _1, _2);
    send_goal_options.result_callback =
      std::bind(&FibonacciActionClient::result_callback, this, _1);
    this->client_ptr_->async_send_goal(goal_msg, send_goal_options);
  }