Why we should seize the day...
Look before you leap. I’ve heard that so many times I almost don't react to the statement when my mother's slips it into almost every sermon she regales to me.I've learnt to mute her out like white ambient noise when she tells me to watch my step...think before I act. She’s been saying this to me since I was a little girl and while I may have pensively listened to her then I think I'm only beginning to understand the whole meaning of thinking carefully, then analyzing and calculating and only eventually reaching an elaborate conclusion.
It's an adult thing right? Whoever heard of a child calculating every factor before making a decision? It's unheard of.
Being an adult comes with a load of responsibility. Once you get past the stage of braces and training bras, responsibility seems to loom right above your head. It can't be eluded. Adults seem to run on a stopwatch, finish college, earn a living, make the rent. Not to mention the dark side of responsibility. When you screw up and let everything slip right through your fingers.
That's the scariest feeling you'll ever have. The helplessness of it will overwhelm you. The pain of that feeling will remain a wound. We’ve been warned against it.And that's why I believe, fear seems to be the among the most powerful motivators.
Fear of failure, fear of rejection, that crippling fear of making a decision. Because what if we're wrong? What if we make a mistake we can't undo ?
And then there's the flip side of the coin. We have the great thinkers, inventors, poets and legends telling us to never leave until tomorrow what we can do today. A stitch in time saves nine...the early bird catches the worm...don't hesitate or you will be lost. We can't pretend this hasn't been passed along to us, we’ve heard the proverbs telling us to seize the goddamn day already.
Carpe diem. What on earth is carpe diem? How are you supposed to plan a life? A career? A future ? If you're always carpe-ing the diem? If we all seized
It's an adult thing right? Whoever heard of a child calculating every factor before making a decision? It's unheard of.
Being an adult comes with a load of responsibility. Once you get past the stage of braces and training bras, responsibility seems to loom right above your head. It can't be eluded. Adults seem to run on a stopwatch, finish college, earn a living, make the rent. Not to mention the dark side of responsibility. When you screw up and let everything slip right through your fingers.
That's the scariest feeling you'll ever have. The helplessness of it will overwhelm you. The pain of that feeling will remain a wound. We’ve been warned against it.And that's why I believe, fear seems to be the among the most powerful motivators.
Fear of failure, fear of rejection, that crippling fear of making a decision. Because what if we're wrong? What if we make a mistake we can't undo ?
And then there's the flip side of the coin. We have the great thinkers, inventors, poets and legends telling us to never leave until tomorrow what we can do today. A stitch in time saves nine...the early bird catches the worm...don't hesitate or you will be lost. We can't pretend this hasn't been passed along to us, we’ve heard the proverbs telling us to seize the goddamn day already.
Carpe diem. What on earth is carpe diem? How are you supposed to plan a life? A career? A future ? If you're always carpe-ing the diem? If we all seized