Welcome to the continued exploration of British Literature as the class explores the 18th century through the Modern Period of British literary history.
Saturday, March 19, 2011
with a cloak full of peace.
Carpe Diem. I feel like this is a concept that is looked at with gratitude, but not often fought for. We can all reflect on it, and say that its a great way to live your life, and in more ways then one beneficial, but I feel like we reflect on it like its out of our reach. With bystanders eyes; like its something that we ourselves cannot obtain. Id like to disagree. I feel like this phrase is emboding a whole aspect of peace with oneself and effort to strive for what you want. Realizing that succeding takes effort, so wishing its going to happen isnt going to do any good unless effort is put into it. But then I think its also engulfing this whole idea of peace. That if you are always striving for something better, you are going to miss what you have today. In reality, the moment you are striving could be happening right now. I feel like this is really what it means by seize the day. If you are never at peace with who you are now then how can you expect to be at peace with who you are tomorrow....
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Well first off Em, seize is spelled seize not cease. Cease means to stop something, seize means to grab something.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, this reminded mean of a leadership class discussion we had at NLC. We discussed how you can accept and be happy be others if you are not happy with yourself. I think that in order to truly be happy you have to first be happy with who you are and only then can be happy with those around you.
You guys bring up some good points, its something we all strive for as a goal when you think about it, but is easily forgotten when we step back into our lives.
ReplyDeleteThat's because we are creatures of habit... and we let our trivial routines rule our worlds!
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