Live Each Moment For What It's Worth By Emrma Bombeck Summary

Erma Bombeck, a popular newspaper columnists and essayist, in her essay “Live Each Moment for What It’s Worth,” writes about seizing the moment, “Too many people put off something that brings them joy just because they have not thought about it, do not have it on their schedule, did not know it was coming, or are too rigid to depart from the routine” (8). Bombeck’s purpose is to inspire people to live each life like there is no tomorrow and for everyone of us to enjoy the present and not give up on those chances and regret it later on. People should seize the moment and have a day to do whatever they want without having stress or people telling them that they can not do it. Seizing the moment means enjoy the present.

To begin, we only live life once not everything in life will be a hundred percent perfect, so people should

seize the moment as much as they can now before it is too late. We give ourselves so many promises that we do not even look back towards or follow. When times are right we give ourselves so much less free time filled of loads of work, but when it comes down to the times when we have the bad days we start giving ourselves credit and putting fun stuff which later in the end it is too late. Bombeck states, “we live on a spare diet of promises we make ourselves when all the conditions are perfect” (8). We can always turn that around and think positive and not caring if our day is bad or good we can still make a change and have a bright side to every solution. Being yourself and doing something you love is seizing the moment it is not hard to. All you do is just take one day out of our life for something enjoyable.
On the other hand, it is not always going to be done right there will always be barriers that will occur and block us from overcoming our day. There will be times where when we want to have fun, but can not because either we have children or a job that would not allow us to have days off or having to take care of our elders. Always have hope in oneself because having hope is the biggest achievement in stepping onto overcoming our day and making the day worth wild. Having a positive and open minded thoughts can create new ideas for us no matter where we are at or what we are doing we are still in the process of thinking of new things. Just simply having fun at work or taking care of our kids we can still make fun out of it just like going to an amusement park getting all crazy with friends and family. Bombeck states, “is open to adventure, available for trips and keeps an open mind on new ideas” (8).
To illustrate, no matter how hard our barriers will occur we can seize the moment anyway we want and still maintain happy in the end.

It might be hard, but I gone through that and see what it has turned out to be. When I was back in middle school during that summer my friend wanted to go ride our bikes, but I had so much homework and had to study for my test for the very next day for summer school. I was so scared that I might fail my test, but the same time I also really wanted to go ride my bike with my friend, so I thought of an idea which is taking my homework and my notes that I needed to study for the next day with me in my backpack. We got to ride our bikes around for a few hours and then we went to the park and found a nice shady area to sit to do our homework and study while enjoying the sunset and watching the birds tweet. That day was the most memorable and fun day I got to seize the moment. Bombeck states, “I’d have died happy” (9). I seize the moment and found a way to the solution and did both things without just studying and doing homework. I did not know something that I almost wanted to break down end up

fun.
In conclusion, people should seize the moment as much as we can and even when sometimes it does not work out to be perfect like we think it will. Erma’s essay that she wrote was that she regret not having the opportunity to seize the moment with her sister by having lunch before she died and she gave us other examples like about the titanic and how many Americans out there cram so much into their lives which stops them from enjoying it instead. There are still many ways to seize the moment, but just remember that once you seize the moment grab onto it and do not let go because who knows if we can ever get those chances in our lives that we miss back. Erma has taught me a big lesson not just in life, but something I should be appreciative of sometimes. She taught me to enjoy every second which is true because it helps me to be happy and once I am happy I enjoy working and doing anything I am told. Everyone should have the chance to seize the moment. Makes life more easier.