Related to the last post, and an ever interesting subject for me, is the idea of living more in the present. It's often said that taking one day at a time is the way to live, embodied in the famous Carpe Diem motto. Seize the day. Or its more modern counterpart YOLO. First coined by the Roman poet Horace more than 2,000 years ago, the phrase is part of the longer Carpe Diem, Quam Minimum Credula Postero, which is often translated as "Seize the day, put very little trust in tomorrow (the future)". The idea here being that we shouldn't leave to chance our future, but rather start today making our own future better. Related but distinct is the expression Memento Mori - "remember that you are mortal", which carries some of the same connotation as Carpe Diem. For Horace, mindfulness of our own mortality is key in making us realize the importance of the moment. "Remember that you are mortal, so seize the day." In Matthew 6:34, Jesus invites to a simi
Two weeks have gone by since I last wrote here. The struggle to write regularly and keep a daily blog is real. I was wondering the reason why and I remembered a song that describes it. It's called "Inquietação". That word can be translated as restlessness or disquiet. "Cá dentro inquietação, inquietação É só inquietação, inquietação Porquê, não sei Porquê, não sei Porquê, não sei ainda Há sempre qualquer coisa que está pra acontecer Qualquer coisa que eu devia perceber Porquê, não sei Porquê, não sei Porquê, não sei ainda" The chorus of the song talks about an interior disquiet, a consuming restlessness. The motives are unclear, the author doesn't know why, or not yet. But then he says something that I feel most of the time: there's always something happening, something I should understand (Há sempre qualquer coisa que está pra acontecer, qualquer coisa que eu devia perceber). And that's what the past two weeks have been. Some