carpe diem

If i seized the day, or at least tried, i would feel so much better and get to much further ahead.

I do it once in a while, but not always. I need to do it more often, so i can make the most out of every opportunity!!

This is something we all need to do.

Gotta live for today, becase we don’t know that there is a tomorrow.

Seize the day.

Something so few people actually do. To wake up every morning and think to yourself “It’s a new day. It’s a fresh start. Yesterday is behind me and all that’s left is what I’m doing right now and how I’m going to live my life today.”

They always say “live everyday as if it were your last,” right? Now taking that too literally would be a bad idea- spending money you don’t have or something like that.

What I think it really means is this: Live like you’ve got nothing to lose with a certain level of control. Plan your future but never set it in stone. I write my future in the sand because I decide what it is and it can change by any small tide.

I want to be able to lie in my bed before I go to sleep every night and be able to ask myself “Did I seize the day today?” And know in my heart that I did.

Someday I’ll get there.

Who knows if this is your last moment so you might as well live every moment as if it is your last!

im always daydreaming too much but living by the day, to survive the next patrol, next post, next convoy, just surviving is just so hard. its hard to empty yourself out to leave the wire with no regrets, you never know when you will die, how fragile life really is, in a blink of an eye you can get smoked by an IED or get wasted by a round through the head, i always make sure to put in that last letter home and have my death letter in my pocket before i leave.

to take those chances. i cannot continue to question myself or my thoughts as i so often do. i must learn to let go of my fear and live for the now! the past is gone, the future’s far away! remember! sieze the day!

but this one fits under Carpe Diem too.

When Michele said “come out to Greenville tonight” – even though I’d planned a quiet early night – I went and had a great time.

When Lynn said “wanna go to a show tonight” – even though I’d gotten 4 hours’ sleep and worked hard all day and had planned a quiet early night in – I went to the show and had a great time.

Because I WANT TO LIVE WHILE I’M ALIVE!!!

im like normal person…i love the life
i want to enjoy in my life

Time takes us all,So why am I not just living for today?
– The Used, “The Ripper”

This is the most important thing on my list. I really need to work on this. I have wasted so many years and so much time doing nothing. In fact, I am about to go find my sketch book and start working on that.

:)