Live For Today!
Why must we seize the day? That is a million dollar life question. I think the question should be stated “Why not seize the day”. There is no wrong or right way to answer this question. This question reminds me of the quote by Harry "Breaker" Harbord Morant “Live every day as if it were going to be your last; for one day you're sure to be right.” So that is my answer. Better stated in the simple term Carpe diem “seize the day” means to have enjoyment of the pleasures of the moment without concern for the future. Why not enjoy what you have at the moment than dwell over what you could have, because today’s struggle can be tomorrow’s blessing. In the early 17th century poets wrote a great deal about seizing the moment while we have the chance. I chose the poem “CORINNA'S GOING A-MAYING” by Robert Herrick to analyze and explain the religious factors and expressing love through words in the current era of the poem.
Seizing the day is extremely harder than what people think. We as human are made with the lateral septum, which is the part of the brain that makes us worry. Worrying can causes anybody’s day to turn terribly wrong. I disagree with some when they make the notion to not let petty things bother you like; bills, lack of money, love etc. But I also can see how people can say those things. Those are the people with all the perfect things in life and they don’t have worry. It’s like saying “easier said than done” meaning it is much more difficult than it sounds. In Harbord Morant quote he states live everyday as your last because you might be right. Take from this quote that it means never take a break from enjoying the roses. Even though we all have life issues we deal them with on a daily basis. You can’t...
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...writing is a Catholic writer. He talks about May Day as if it Like Sunday or Special day which Male and females get together for a day of flirting out of fun. Puritans do not like event as such because they believe, Sunday are day meant for God, worship and religion issues ext. This is political because some people were forced to go to the church again their will that the history of the Catholic Church. It’s also, part of the reason for the churches downfall. Nobody likes to be told to do and what they can’t. Nobody like to be forced to anything against their own will. So people quite the church as a rebellion.
Seize the day, for you probably never get another chance to truly do what makes you happy. Set aside faraway hopes. Even as we speak, time is running away from us. So seize the day and the moment, and don’t put your faith in the future. Carpe diem!
Across Five April's by Irene Hunt is about how the civil war tears apart a family during the hard times of the civil war. There were 239 pages it this story. The book follows the life of Jethro Creighton, a young farm boy in rural Illinois as he grows from a protected and provided for nine year old, to a educated and respectable young adult during the chaos of the civil war.
make the most of what you’ve got in life and hold onto it because you
This book is told from the diary of the main character, Sam Gribley. Sam is a boy full of determination. He didn’t give up and go home like everyone thought he would. He is strong of mind. After the first night in the freezing rain, with no fire and no food, he still went on. He is a born survivor. He lasted the winter, through storms, hunger, and loneliness, and came out on top even when everyone expected him to fail. “The land is no place for a Gribley” p. 9
“If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don’t appreciate the moment until it's passed”-(kanye west).
live day to day as a means to survive, and only then would we truly
It is amazing how many things we take for granted. We make plans for the day, and don 't think twice about how those plans can be taken away in the blink of an eye. I never thought much about it myself until I was faced with the shock of my aunt’s death. I don 't think anyone really thinks about tragedy until they are actually faced with shocking news. The lesson I can learn from this is to live everyday intentionally and purposely.
...times the pleasures of life are too much to bear causing harsh reality to come crashing down when we realize that nothing lasts forever. We might as well enjoy what we have while we have it and not dwell onthings when they are gone, or we might all just be alone and palely loitering.
In William Wycherley’s The Country Wife, William Wycherley enlightens the audience to capture several different ironical statements and questionable behaviors. The play fits perfectly into Greenwald’s definition of a comedy of manners: “[Critics] assert that a comedy of manners and the people who inhabit it represent the ostentatiously idle upper-class” (“Social Heirarchy” web). Wycherley also distinguishes several oddities in his characters not typically used to describe the upper-class. For example, Mr. Pinchwife, a wealthy newlywed husband, is so afraid that he is going to become a cuckold, that he does not allow his wife to leave the house (Wycherley act two). One of Wycherley’s goals in writing The Country Wife is to point out the flaws of society (“Q & A” web). Wycherley understands that no one is perfect and that a person’s virtues can be altered if pressures and outside influences become prominent. This is precisely how Wycherley uses Mrs. Margery Pinchwife’s character. Mrs. Pinchwife, a virtuous woman, still succumbs to the immorality of the city of London. Wycherley develops characters who precisely bring out Mrs. Pinchwife’s flaws. Mrs. Pinchwife takes the risks of public shame and a damage reputation to have an affair with Mr. Horner.
day with a positive outlook. We try to establish our lives to the point where
Essentially, by taking things for granted it “yanks [people] out of the present moment and sabotages [their] enjoyment, [their] attention is placed elsewhere and [their] experiences are dulled” (Chelsea). People’s experiences and moments with those around them is what shapes everything in their lives. Once something or a loved one is gone, all most do is yearn for another moment with it. They immediately begin to regret all the times they should have appreciated and cared for them but they didn’t. As long as humans continue to take things for granted, “the mindset can lead [people] to behave in careless ways, to mistreat the people [they] care about, and to fail to say or do what is really in [their] hearts” (Breines 1). As simple as it is, believing something will last forever can only lead to terrible afterthoughts and experiences. Instead of living in the moment, people’s lives would be filled with regret. Life would leave them constantly thinking about the things they should have done instead of the things they already achieved with their valued belongings. In order for people to stop regretting their lives, it is essential to find a way to stop themselves from falling into the mindset again and continue taking things for
Many individuals have different aspects as to how life should be valued. Some individuals live life a day at a time while attempting to make the most as if their last breath was upcoming. In a Stanford Commencement in 2005, Apple CEO Steve Jobs quo...
I always hear those old sayings. In the course of one day I can hear them about everything from retraining old dogs to getting up early. I think they make sense and I even ponder on some of them, but I never really thought one might mean as much to me, or become as realistic as it has become in my life. The clichés about telling those you love, how you feel, before it is too late and the ones about living every day like it is your last have an all new meaning to me.
Tonight we stand at a crossroad where each one of use will take a new direction in our life's journey. Walt Whitman said "Not I - not anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it for yourself." Where we end up isn't the most important decision, but instead it is the road we choose to take to get there. The road we take is what we will look back on and call our life. Life is a journey of everyday experiences, teaching us moment in, moment out, who we really are. It's important to remember these words "Happiness is to be found along the way, not at the end of the road, for then the journey is over and it is too late."
...s that one must accept the possibility of one's own death before he can truly appreciate what he has on earth, as the sobering awareness that one day, it will all be out of reach, prompts the urge to appreciate and value what one can have only for a limited period of time, and to use every moment of that time doing something that one will not regret when the bird sings its last note.
I can look forward to it and manage my expectations but happens when something gets in the way? I will never have the answer to “What is the meaning of life?”—but I will have the ability to try. There is a reason why I’m always soul searching to become a better me. It’s because the best me hasn’t happened yet. I will never be the best version of myself but I am always a work in progress trying to reach the ultimate goal. Life isn’t about being successful and leaving your “mark on the world.” Maybe life is about leaving a shadow so one can follow in. Maybe that’s why we’re all here—to try and make it easier for the people to come. My fulfilling life hasn’t been fulfilled yet—the best is yet to