Wednesday 3 September 2014

Carpe diem

This is a very misunderstood Latin phrase. I see more and more humans living by the misinterpreted version of this code. It does not mean to live for the moment only and don't give a damn people around you, what they feel, how you hurt them just to be a selfish jerk. It does not mean to encourage yourself to do whatever you want and don't care about the consequences or don't take responsibilities for your acts. If you thought so for now, you thought wrong. Carpe diem more likely means bless today, live in the moment, be grateful for your life, be happy what you are, value what you have and make use of today. If you want to succeed your goals do something about it, but now. Stop nagging on events happened  in the past. Because you can't change the past. You know the phrase "don't cry over split milk". On the other hand "Don't ask (it's forbidden to know) what end the gods have given me or you". This is how Odes 1.11 starts, written by Horace, which Carpe diem is part of. That means stop, too, scanning future. Stop worrying about things that has not happen yet and may not ever will. So, why are you worrying about them? Focus on the present. Fulfill the moment, make use of it. Every second bed in health care is occupied by a person who has some kind of psychosomatic illness: hypertension, angina pectoris, ulceris and so on. If you constantly worrying on something you slowly kill yourself. If you live without care and responsibility someone else will kill you much sooner. So, if something occured in the past, happened to you or between you and someone else, put your burden down. If something has not happened yet, than why are you so concern about it. If you want to achieve a desired aim in your life the only time to do is the present. Otherwise you will live in the past or kill yourself before you see the future. So, move your fatty ass and live in the moment, seize the day.
How long you want to moaning about that grievance? How long you want to live in that failure? How long you want to procastinate that move? How much more you want to concern about your unhappened future yet?

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