Carpe Diem is one of my favourite phrases, famously said by Robin Williams’ character in one of my very favourite films, Dead Poets Society, one I highlighted in an old “Movies with Meaning” post alongside Braveheart and Michael Clayton.
Linked to that is the phrase “No Ordinary Moments“, an anchor for life from my friend Morgan Da Costa.
If you knew in advance that your life was going to be put on hold for a time at a set date, what are the things you would do now, Carpe Diem, seize the day?
In my case, next week I am going for routine but significant abdominal surgery (from which my prognosis is a full recovery, which is a blessing), so yesterday I went for a nice meal (outside, don’t want to risk catching Covid and surgery being postponed!), then this morning I went for a four-hour bike ride, as I won’t be riding for a while (probably at least two months) so as to let the abdominal muscles heal.
Why share this? As a way to have you consider imagining such a constraint on yourself. If that was your reality, what would you do now rather than put off to some future date? In my case it was as simple as a meal and a bike ride, in your case what would it be.