There are 6,884,855,849 people in the world. Almost two people die per second. In one minute 102 people will have died. Every hour 6,098 lives will be gone. Have you ever gone 24 hours without sleeping? It's draining once your body starts to shut down, but before it does and you have mysterious energy, its liberating, you feel in control of your life. In that 24 hours of joy, 146,357 people didn't have a choice to stay awake or not. In 55 hours 2010 will be over, and about 53.4 million people will have died this year. Read these statistics again and then ask your self:
"WHY AM I STILL ALIVE?"
Regardless of your religion, gender, occupation, age or disability, you have a purpose. Even a dead person has a purpose and they may not have fulfilled their purpose until after they died but none the less he/she had a purpose.
In high school death revealed it's self to me and it became a reality that death is coming. Recently, my best friend died at the age of 20. There were no words that could be said to heal the pain. The thing that made me have an epiphany is realizing it could have been me. Cancer has no eyes, it has no emotion. Just as easily as Kristen was diagnosed right before our freshman year in college and then battled for two years and finally was taken Home this august; it could have been me.
When people die we tend to ask "why?" and I realized we should be asking "why not...me?"
Regardless if you believe in heaven or hell or God, you are living, but why?
Why are you not apart of the death statistics?
Your purpose only matters if you know it.
The searching and the trials and pot-holes that we have to get through to find our purpose is called life.
Carpe diem is a phrase from a Latin poem by Horace that has become an aphorism. It is popularly translated as "seize the day". Carpe literally means "to pick, pluck, pluck off, cull, crop, gather", but Ovid, a Roman poet, used the word in the sense of, "To enjoy, seize, use, make use of". Though it is a misconception that it says "seize the day" this may be because it is a translation and translations are not perfect.
I begin to think that Ovid was not trying to change the meaning of Carpe Diem but make it more applicable to people's life's.
"to pick, pluck, pluck off, cull, crop, gather" could this not be a metaphor for life?
In life we pick things such as friends, majors, husbands, wife's, schools.
In life we pluck, we transform, we examine
In life we pluck off people who are not positive to our life's, we pluck off choices that will not enhance our the way we live.
To cull means to gather the choice things or parts from, which is what we do in life when we receive advice, or when we hear a sermon, or when we experience just about anything. We should learn from everything and cull the fruitful things.
To crop is produce supply. I feel my best when I'm being productive or giving back in some way. This is essential to living life abundantly.
Finally to gather, in life we gather many things and that's what makes us, individuals because we all have different items in our basket. But it doesn't matter who has what and who is better at a certain thing or who makes more money than whom. All that matters is what is in our basket helps us be the person that we are.
Look inside your basket and see what you have, don't compare, focus on yours and then ask your self why you were given those items. Then ask your self what am I going to do to utilize these individual strengths to the best of my ability?
You only have one life to live and you don't know if 2012 is in your book of life.
Death will lose it's sting when people realize it could have been them, ask themselves why not me, and then dive in to every day they are blessed with as if it is their last.
Work Hard, Play Harder, One life to live, NEVER give up.
Don't ask (it's forbidden to know) what end
the gods will grant to me or you, Don't play with Babylonian
fortune-telling either. It is better to endure whatever will be.
Whether Jupiter has allotted to you many more winters or this final one
which even now wears out the Tyrrhenian sea on the rocks placed opposite
— be wise, strain the wine, and scale back your long hopes
to a short period.
While we speak, envious time will have {already} fled
Seize the day, trusting as little as possible in the future.
------Poem by Horace
Sources:
www.wikipedia.org
http://www.wholesomewords.org/missions/greatc.html#worldpop
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