How Do You Feel About Seizing Your Day?
Do you remember a decade ago when ice bucket challenge videos were all the rage? Lost in the “I wanna do that too” frenzy of Insta-copy cats was a very poignant story: the story of a man with ALS, his dear friend Yvette, and their desire to live as happily as possible for as long as possible by following Robert Frost’s advice, carpe diem. As a fund-raiser for ALS support chapters across the country, Yvette is the person who started the ice-bucket-dumping that happened worldwide.
How do you carpe diem? Robert Frost’s 1938 poem entitled “Carpe Diem” included the desire for children to be “happy, happy, happy and seize the day of pleasure.” Popularized in a song by Green Day and the movie “Dead Poets Society”, the term carpe diem is a gentle reminder that time is always passing, and we shouldn’t waste it. Do you, sometimes? Me, too.
If you have a pet, think about how they behave when they’re not sleeping – they’re usually doing something, right? One of my dogs is almost always trying to get the other one to play with him, and she’s game sometimes, and other times she’d rather be sniffing interesting smells or trying to figure out what she has to do to get a cookie from me. Our pets seize their days every day.
We often get so caught up worrying about something that’s already in the past or something that’s in the future and might never even happen that time passes and we don’t notice it. It’s that unnoticed time that’s wasted time. It’s time we’ll never get back. Time is more important than money because time is life. Here are three episodes of the world’s second-shortest podcast to help you carpe your diem more consistently:
Is someone else’s diem you’re expected to carpe? Here’s a Tiny Bite for that!
Want to know how to carpe diem your way through a huge life shift? Here’s a Tiny Bite for that!
Need a good reason to NOT seize the day? Here’s a Tiny Bite for that!
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Tomorrow is officially Carpe Diem Day. Will you try to spend more time seizing your day, moment by moment? It’s OK to not be perfectly in the moment all the time – no one’s perfect. Just try a little bit to rein in that time-traveling brain of yours so you can see what’s going on in your life more clearly, and be there for your friends, family, and pets. Because Robert Frost had it right – if we want to be happier, we do have to seize our day instead of letting it slip through our grasp.
Wags,
Sandy Weaver
The Voice of Wagaliciousness
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