A brief dose of thinkingness...
Feb. 19th, 2010 03:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
usernamenumberMy comment about contentedness, (over-)scheduling and such in my last post reminded me of something that's been kicking around my head since this morning:
If I have a motto, or at least something I aspire to treat as a motto, it's probably that Jason Webley quote that many of you have heard me cite before:
"Every one of us is damned until we start to understand that living is to gorge ourselves at our own wakes"
The problem with this is that, as powerful a "carpe diem", or at least "do not waste time on things that do not make you happy", message as it is to me, I'm too practical to try to live by that alone. If you truly gorge yourself, living each day as though it were your last, then statistically speaking you're more likely to end up un-prepared for tomorrow than to die fulfilled. Sometimes being fulfilled in the long-run requires doing things that are unpleasant in the short-run, and I figure the most effectively way to achieve a net-fulfilment in life is to strike a balance between the two. So I decided that I needed something with which to counter-balance that sentiment: a similarly positive, if desperate, message that acknowledges the importance of the future, not just the present. This morning, with the help of an English-to-Latin dictionary, I think I finally settled on one:
"Carpe Cras" ("Sieze The Morrow")
I think that if ever I were to get a tattoo, it would be two: one of each of these.
Ok, now back to work. For reals this time.
If I have a motto, or at least something I aspire to treat as a motto, it's probably that Jason Webley quote that many of you have heard me cite before:
"Every one of us is damned until we start to understand that living is to gorge ourselves at our own wakes"
The problem with this is that, as powerful a "carpe diem", or at least "do not waste time on things that do not make you happy", message as it is to me, I'm too practical to try to live by that alone. If you truly gorge yourself, living each day as though it were your last, then statistically speaking you're more likely to end up un-prepared for tomorrow than to die fulfilled. Sometimes being fulfilled in the long-run requires doing things that are unpleasant in the short-run, and I figure the most effectively way to achieve a net-fulfilment in life is to strike a balance between the two. So I decided that I needed something with which to counter-balance that sentiment: a similarly positive, if desperate, message that acknowledges the importance of the future, not just the present. This morning, with the help of an English-to-Latin dictionary, I think I finally settled on one:
"Carpe Cras" ("Sieze The Morrow")
I think that if ever I were to get a tattoo, it would be two: one of each of these.
Ok, now back to work. For reals this time.
