Carpe Diem

A truly heartwarming story about how a literature teacher changed the lives of the students in his class. This is a story that can be watched, all over again, without any form of tiredness, nor the lack of emotions. This is a story that cannot be skipped, its whole understood in every possible manner. This is one story which i may never truly forget, the vintage value of it enhancing every moment of it. This is a story which told me everything, and inspired what i wanted to always do for a very long time. This is one story which you must watch, without reprise, nor biasness, but with a open heart, swallowing the details so that you may pour tears at the end of it all. Cliche it may be, but truly the best. And truly deserving of its Academy Award.

Somehow, it seem ironic that the seriousness, the reality and the romanticism of the movie clashes with what is seen to be truly crude and distasteful humor [my previous entry]. But that shouldnt be the focus of what i should be writing about. No, this is about what i had felt throughout the told story, and what can be foreseen in the near coming future.

Carpe Diem my good sirs and ladies who read this writing of mine, Carpe Diem. Seize the day, they say, for it is one that you lived only once. And it can never happened again. Forget the what ifs, and the maybes. Do what you want to do, and seize every opportunity that matters most to you. I remember my secondary school teacher showed my class this Famous latin phrase, but how i scoffed, and rolled my eyes, and treated it as nondescript, a meaningless words that is thrown around to inspire you. It fills me however with great regret that i never actually took the word seriously, and thought about it in its whole entirety.

Throughout my life, i have been living it silently, taking it day by day, thinking i have much time to spare. But Life is short my friends. A hundred years is what we barely have. So count the months, the days, the minutes, even the seconds. The number is huge yes, but you would just be fooling yourself. What we have here is the limited time to do what we can, and what we want to achieve in our lives. Yes, some of us grew up differently, but i realised, that is no excuse for what you have doing now. Do you want to live your life knowing nothing about the world, living only for yourself and your studies and not dwell into the knowledge that has so been founded, organised by our forefathers and ancestors? Do you want to live your life just doing nothing everyday, playing meaningless games when you could do meaningful things?

Yes, this are big words, and big concepts that require actions to be taken. Few trend the road to be taken, and even fewer take down the road less travelled. Remember the leadership camps you took? I remember mine.

I took the road less travelled by, and that had made all the difference. - Robert Frost

I never really took that sentence seriously, even when it was explained and further told to emphasis its point. But listening to it in that story i have just seen, it brought me memories which i wished sometimes i didnt have. But blame not others but myself for i am what i am. I cannot blame genetics, nor can i blame my parents. My upbringing, or my influences. Yes, to a certain extent, it might have affected who i am today, but being a person who can think, or so said:

Cogito ergo sum - René Descartes

I think, therefore i am. I can figure out myself what needs be done in my life now. And what i should be doing. No blaming other people, nor society itself. It's all you. You are who you are now, and you create what you want in your life. Live it, or lose it.

Poetry is an amazing thing in this world, and i regret, terribly that i never pursue my interest in literature. I always wanted to, but to let matters prevent me from doing it, it is indeed a foolishness on my part.

A resolution on my part would be reading up on poetry. With the exams finished, and having all the time in the world, why wait?

Romanticism is a beautiful thing to behold and feel, the virtuality of it lending weight to the impact that it makes on sentences, and words that are otherwise meaningless to the less informed.

Maybe i am a romantic. After all.

Thank you for reading.