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....

~ViRgInS~

Interesting thought: I know that this poem had lots of meanings. That it wasn't LITERALLY (or not entirely literally) talking about sex, but rather about life in itself. But what did the author really expect from the people when they were writing this. It is very evident that authors wrote according to what was happening around them in their life times. So when they were in the middle of a war, what were they trying to get people to react to? To be completely honest, the sex part makes the most sense to me. If you don't know if your going to live to face tomorrow, i understand that the author was saying go out and have fun. But what other reaction could he be trying to spark by saying go out and experience life. How would this apply to war??? Was he trying to get people to stand up against the leaders of the time? Maybe he was trying to recruit for a certain war party. I really don't know the incentive to the underlying message here.