Carpe Diem!

Carpe diem -- Pluck the day.  WHOA.

Learned it from this article, which makes sense.  Lots of it.  Reminds me of Pope Francis and his refrain of mercy and tenderness, aside from sense and sense and sense (instead of, or beyond, freewheeling and following one's feelings and feeding one's ego).

Read on...

"Carpe diem" doesn't mean seize the day — it means something gentler and more sensible. "Carpe diem" means pluck the day. Carpe, pluck. Seize the day would be "cape diem," if my school Latin servies. No R. Very different piece of advice. What Horace had in mind was that you should gently pull on the day's stem, as if it were, say, a wildflower or an olive, holding it with all the practiced care of your thumb and the side of your finger, which knows how to not crush easily crushed things — so that the day's stalk or stem undergoes increasing tension and draws to a thinness, and a tightness, and then snaps softly away at its weakest point, perhaps leaking a little milky sap, and the flower, or the fruit, is released in your hand. Pluck the cranberry or blueberry of the day tenderly free without damaging it, is what Horace meant — pick the day, harvest the day, reap the day, mow the day, forage the day. Don't freaking grab the day in your fist like a burger at a fairground and take a big chomping bite out of it.
~Lifted from this article from the Esquire website

Thanks to my educators Frs. Robert Paul and Joel for this (and for the many hours of learning)!