Sometimes we fail and it's our fault. Can we then acknowledge that we have been beset and seized by our own bindings. such shackles and mire may have to this point held us fast to our own mediocrity. Can we then to love our failure and forgive ourselves? We travel from such limitations through the pain and angst of emerging into our next level of personal liberty.
Today, we might become aware of personal limitations and thus of the fresh and vital opportunity that awaits us.
Carpe diem is often misquoted as "seize the day." a better rendering of it is to "gather the day." Gathering the day is both a reference to making order of the day(to gather it together) and harvesting the day. The implication is that all that we need is robustly present and waiting around us, a field of possibilities - or at least the next necessary possibility. It is therefore our destiny, our very calling to claim each day unto us. Such effort is most often the doing of simple routine, seemingly mundane tasks. Such effort does, eventually, result in the very real manifestation of our dreams.
Just for today, may we renew ourselves and simply do the next right thing. Carpe diem!
I like that rendering of "Carpe Diem," "Gather the day." It suggests collecting moments that are available to us, rather than seeking for moments that are so fleeting that we have to snatch at them, "seize" at them in order to live. Thank you for this lovely thought. :)
ReplyDeletei wish I could remember where I first heard the 'gather' version, so I could give credit where credit is due - still, it is a nice twist on an old interpretation and one with some substance to the translation.
DeleteOff to gather a bit more of this beautiful day.