Psychological Yoga and the Theory of Carpe Diem

Originally Posted Aug 22, 2009 9:05pm

Carpe Diem (Noun): The act of living for the moment and enjoying the present.

It’s been an interesting couple of weeks at the Betit homestead, weeks which staple to my forehead the greatest lesson of all – that when cancer is in your midst, you must live one moment at a time. Though “carpe diem” has become a bit cliché since Robert Sean Leonard shouted it from the summit of his desk in “Dead Poets Society” (a movie and an actor I do confess my love for), I have vowed to keep Horace’s notion at the forefront to anchor my mind in our new reality. Though I am fighting my own nature to adhere to this edict – I bear an intense and innate dislike of surprises of any sort – I have realized that to preserve order in our cosmos, I must be prepared for any and all surprises, and of greatest import, enjoy every possible calm moment, as it is likely to change in an instant.