I just took a week's real vacation, and the whole time, I wore two Hari Krishna bracelets I bought in NOLA last year, when my almost 95-year-old mother had fallen in her assisted living, and I couldn't immediately drive to be with her (she was bruised, and broke her nose and orbital bones, but luckily nothing displaced and she made a full recovery). I decided, if I was going to be in NOLA, I was going to enjoy the experience to the hilt. I did.
Now, I wear those bracelets whenever I need a reminder to carpe the @&% diem.
I've turned down so many vacation opportunities because I was on a deadline. It's taken me all this time to realize that those vacations are necessary for the soul. And NOLA! I LOVE NOLA! Glad you have those reminders.
I came across this quote recently that seems apropos:“
I counted my years and realised that I have less time to live by, than I have lived so far. I feel like a child who won a pack of candies: At first, he ate them with pleasure ,but when he realised that there was little left, he began to taste them intensely.
I have no time for endless meetings where the statutes, rules, procedures and internal regulations are discussed, knowing that nothing will be done.
I no longer have the patience to stand absurd people who, despite their chronological age, have not grown up.
My time is too short: I want the essence; my spirit is in a hurry. I do not have much candy in the package anymore.
I want to live next to humans, very realistic people who know how to laugh at their mistakes and who are not inflated by their own triumphs and who take responsibility for their actions. In this way, human dignity is defended and we live in truth and honesty.
It is the essentials that make life useful.
I want to surround myself with people who know how to touch the hearts of those whom hard strokes of life have learned to grow with sweet touches of the soul.
Yes, I’m in a hurry. I’m in a hurry to live with the intensity that only maturity can give.
I do not intend to waste any of the remaining desserts. I am sure they will be exquisite, much more than those eaten so far.
My goal is to reach the end satisfied and at peace with my loved ones and my conscience.
We have two lives and the second begins when you realize you only have one.”
(Mario de Andrade - San Paolo 1893-1945. Poet, novelist, essayist and musicologist. One of the founders of Brazilian modernism.)
I LOVE this, Christine! Thanks for sharing it! That last line really got me because part of my work as a 61 year old is focusing on reintegrating all the parts of me I left behind along the way - like music. It's been so fulfilling!
I love this, Sarah! It's so affirming.
I just took a week's real vacation, and the whole time, I wore two Hari Krishna bracelets I bought in NOLA last year, when my almost 95-year-old mother had fallen in her assisted living, and I couldn't immediately drive to be with her (she was bruised, and broke her nose and orbital bones, but luckily nothing displaced and she made a full recovery). I decided, if I was going to be in NOLA, I was going to enjoy the experience to the hilt. I did.
Now, I wear those bracelets whenever I need a reminder to carpe the @&% diem.
I've turned down so many vacation opportunities because I was on a deadline. It's taken me all this time to realize that those vacations are necessary for the soul. And NOLA! I LOVE NOLA! Glad you have those reminders.
Carpe Fucking Diem!
I loved this Sarah!
Robyn
I came across this quote recently that seems apropos:“
I counted my years and realised that I have less time to live by, than I have lived so far. I feel like a child who won a pack of candies: At first, he ate them with pleasure ,but when he realised that there was little left, he began to taste them intensely.
I have no time for endless meetings where the statutes, rules, procedures and internal regulations are discussed, knowing that nothing will be done.
I no longer have the patience to stand absurd people who, despite their chronological age, have not grown up.
My time is too short: I want the essence; my spirit is in a hurry. I do not have much candy in the package anymore.
I want to live next to humans, very realistic people who know how to laugh at their mistakes and who are not inflated by their own triumphs and who take responsibility for their actions. In this way, human dignity is defended and we live in truth and honesty.
It is the essentials that make life useful.
I want to surround myself with people who know how to touch the hearts of those whom hard strokes of life have learned to grow with sweet touches of the soul.
Yes, I’m in a hurry. I’m in a hurry to live with the intensity that only maturity can give.
I do not intend to waste any of the remaining desserts. I am sure they will be exquisite, much more than those eaten so far.
My goal is to reach the end satisfied and at peace with my loved ones and my conscience.
We have two lives and the second begins when you realize you only have one.”
(Mario de Andrade - San Paolo 1893-1945. Poet, novelist, essayist and musicologist. One of the founders of Brazilian modernism.)
I LOVE this, Christine! Thanks for sharing it! That last line really got me because part of my work as a 61 year old is focusing on reintegrating all the parts of me I left behind along the way - like music. It's been so fulfilling!