Carpe Diem


I am still trying to think through my perspective on posting photos if they are not mine. I make no money on bierkergaard (shocking!) and actually am perhaps encouraging others to solicit goods and services by posting a picture. For instance, I watched the film Dead Poets Society again yesterday for the first time in years. You should too!

A tragic/comic and inspirational film, based a real life teacher but a fictional tale. The big line of the film is where teacher Keating (Robin Williams) admonishes the boys when they are looking a photos of prior classes of students from eons before, the following:

They're not that different from you, are they? Same haircuts. Full of hormones, just like you. Invincible, just like you feel. The world is their oyster. They believe they're destined for great things, just like many of you, their eyes are full of hope, just like you. Did they wait until it was too late to make from their lives even one iota of what they were capable? Because, you see gentlemen, these boys are now fertilizing daffodils. But if you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it? - - Carpe - - hear it? - - Carpe, carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary.

Many of us live between a past of regret and a future of fear. Regret, by itself, is bad. Regret with a resolution to learn the lessons and move forward wiser is good. Our fears about our future might just tell us what the idols of our hearts are. Fear the loss of financial stability? Perhaps money is a god. Worry about your kids? Maybe God wants you to release them into His care. Anxious about your social standing? Do you want approval from the crowd? So, we are paralyzed living in the present, the only time we can really do anything.      

Live today. Really live today. 

Matthew 6:34

“Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble



    

   

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