I was feeling very low and it was gradually becoming harder to use my brain to create beauty in the form of relatively well woven words. I was like this, that is until I did something... different.
I was feeling low and lazy until I attended the funeral service of a true carpe diem.
Or rather someone whose mantra 'happy days' reminded me of this latin phrase.
And it was beautiful.
Yes.
So if you ever feel like you need a reminder about why you should drag yourself out of bed each day, attend the farewell of a carpe diem.
Why?
Because only a true carpe diem leaves a legacy that inspires not only in life but in passing.
A carpe diem by the way is a person who lives life to the utter maximum. Call them YOLO, but with the right kind of ambition. The carpe diem doesn't set out to eat life with a big spoon, no honey, the carpe diem eats life with a freaking spade. And the most beautiful thing about them is that they are all action no talk. So a carpe diem doesn't go bragging about how they are doing this, it just shows. In everything. The risks they take, the passions they pursue.
They have talents and they use them.
But I think the most beautiful thing is that they live this beautiful life full of positivity and good vibes and the same positivity follows them even till they are laid to rest. That is how I realized the importance of this. It is in listening to the tributes said and sung for this particular carpe diem that I learnt that if you radiate happiness and love to those around you, that same happiness and love will follow you as you journey through life.
The world is big enough to accomodate your awesome. Really it is. Whichever form it may take, whether it is loud and happy like the one of my departed muse or whether it is quiet but full of inner beauty like the kind I like to believe I have. The carpe diem way is to make that light shine irregardless of the nature of the flame. Just let it shine bright enough to inspire someone else in days to come.
I am still learning more about the carpe diem way FYI so if I am getting this concept wrong forgive me. But all I know is if it means I can inspire a soul or two and I get to tell the Creator thank you by rocking my personality to the fullest, then I am in. I am so in.
And okay maybe the whole attending a funeral for a carpe diem sounds a bit too goth and all sorts of freaky. So instead find that one person you know who eats life with a big spoon. Engage them. If you are like me, who finds social interaction done outside the confines of sheer necessity quite the daunting task, then observe them. Whatever you do, just learn from them.
Life is such a beautiful thing when lived without regrets.
By the way Ombaye, R.I.P.
Only a champion can add sunshine to his friends by his life and inspire strangers in his death.
Only a champion can add sunshine to his friends by his life and inspire strangers in his death.
