Carpe Diem – Seize the day, if you dare
Thanks for popping by. Our theme today is living a life that is true to ourselves.
In the inspiring movie “Dead Poets Society”, unconventional English teacher Robin Williams exhorts the schoolboys to “seize the day” before they, like students past, are nothing more than maggot food.  To follow their passion, to live in the moment, and to die free of regret.
How many of us hear this message, but carry on regardless, as if life is infinite when, in truth, we are dying from the moment we are born? We stay in places, jobs and relationships which don’t fulfil us, wishing life were different, but doing little to change it.  The answer, it seems, is almost all of us!  “The Top Five Regrets in Dying”, in the words of Australian care worker and novelist Bronnie Weir, are I wish:
  1.  I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me
  2.  I didn’t work so hard
  3.  I’d had the courage to express my feelings
  4. I had stayed in touch with my friends
  5. That I had let myself be happier
These were the five most common regrets of those at death’s door, of those who could no longer do anything about it.