CARPE DIEM

"The clock talked loud.  I threw it away, it scared me what it talked". 

Do you seize the day? When you wake are you filled with anticipation? Are you the person who finds the day all too short to do everything you want to do, or do you spend whole days simply trying to stay awake and remember your name. Do days drip by, moment by moment, until unnoticed they silently slip away, unremarkable and unremembered.

When the day needs careful planning, do you plan or are you prepared to wait and see. Dr Seauss thought that everyone waits, “Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to fly a kite.  Or waiting around for Friday night, or waiting perhaps for their Uncle Jake or a pot to boil or a better break, or a string of pearls or a pair of pants or a wig with curls or another chance”. Everyone is just waiting.

The trouble with waiting is that some opportunities only come around once and if we choose not to seize them they will never come again, so all the analysis, all the pros and conning, all the wait and seeing will be for nothing as the opportunity fades or worse still is grasped by someone else.

Seizing the day is not about making plans to fill every single day, it’s about having a plan at all, a direction you want your life to go in, a dream, an ambition, a change in circumstance.  What ever journey you are waiting to begin, has to start with a step, and if that step is part of a plan, then you will know when the chance comes, whether it is a step worth taking, whether it is time to stop waiting and start walking.

"He who is silent is forgotten; he who does not advance falls back; he who stops is overwhelmed; out distanced, crushed; he who ceases to grow becomes smaller; he who leaves off, gives up; the condition of standing still is the beginning of the end." Henri Frederic Amiel

Subtitle quote by Tillie Olsen