{"id":14,"date":"2010-06-11T13:23:02","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T19:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journeyinstitute.org\/blog\/?p=14"},"modified":"2015-11-20T18:45:27","modified_gmt":"2015-11-21T01:45:27","slug":"carpe-diem-doesnt-quite-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devjourneyinstitute.com\/ji\/index.php\/2010\/06\/11\/carpe-diem-doesnt-quite-do-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Carpe Diem Doesn&#8217;t Quite Do It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/journeyinstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/speed-of-light-726251_12801.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-700 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/journeyinstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/speed-of-light-726251_12801-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"speed-of-light-726251_1280\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>The term \u201cCarpe Diem\u201d, which was first used in a poem by Horace and later\u00a0used in\u00a0English\u00a0by Lord Byron in his \u201cLetters\u201d publication, is most often translated as \u201cSieze The Day\u201d.\u00a0 A noble sentiment to be sure, \u00a0but one which\u00a0doesn\u2019t quite do it for most people.\u00a0 Don\u2019t get me wrong, I\u2019m a big fan of Carpe Diem, and the notion that one should get up with this phrase in mind and not waste their day but instead sieze it as the opportunity that it is, is something I completely agree with.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is that although one can begin their day with this notion in mind, life can quickly keep us from our ideal with the challenges and hurdles that typically come our way on any given day.\u00a0 And so I wonder if \u201cCarpe Modo\u201d might be a better sentiment to use.\u00a0 Although this is likely not the proper use of Latin (my apologies to those of you who have mastered this language) the idea that we must \u2018sieze the moment\u2019 or \u2018sieze now\u2019 is perhaps the better way to capture the original intent of Carpe Diem.<\/p>\n<p>If we can remind ourselves, throughout our day, at any given moment whether something positive is happening, something challenging, or if we are simply at peace; to seize that moment; to find the best in what is happening; to find perspective or seek out the happiness inside of us; that is truly siezing our day all day long.\u00a0 After all, isn\u2019t that what Carpe Diem is all about?\u00a0 Don\u2019t waste your day worrying about the past, or fretting about the future.\u00a0 Live in the moment, stop and smell the roses of whatever is going on around you.\u00a0 If we can do this throughout the day we can then look back as we lay down our heads to sleep and reflect that today, we truly did accomplish what Horace and Lord Byron extoled\u2026. Carpe Diem!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The term \u201cCarpe Diem\u201d, which was first used in a poem by Horace and later\u00a0used in\u00a0English\u00a0by Lord Byron in his \u201cLetters\u201d publication, is most often translated as \u201cSieze The Day\u201d.\u00a0 A noble sentiment to be sure, \u00a0but one which\u00a0doesn\u2019t quite do it for most people.\u00a0 Don\u2019t get me wrong, I\u2019m a big fan of Carpe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devjourneyinstitute.com\/ji\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devjourneyinstitute.com\/ji\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devjourneyinstitute.com\/ji\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devjourneyinstitute.com\/ji\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devjourneyinstitute.com\/ji\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/devjourneyinstitute.com\/ji\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":805,"href":"https:\/\/devjourneyinstitute.com\/ji\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devjourneyinstitute.com\/ji\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devjourneyinstitute.com\/ji\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devjourneyinstitute.com\/ji\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}