Carpe Diem - just one thing

Carpe diem
Memento mori(Remember you must die)

Because no one knows when the sand runs out for us.

Choices are made – that is the nature of life – even not making a choice is, in itself, a choice. But while perhaps one is making a choice (or not, thus a non-choice), life is occurring elsewhere ... time continues to trickle possibilities like grains of sand into the abyss of possibilities, each granular stream someone else’s reality. It is sometimes overwhelming to look around and see the number of animals that are being abused, neglected, abandoned .... I know that rescuers often get overwhelmed- that it seems as soon as they get over one huge effort and rescue an animal or right a wrong, 1000 more crowd in and the clamouring of voices that can’t speak, eyes that beg and wrongs that need righting seem insurmountable.

Carpe diem.
Abyssus abyssum invocate(Hell calls hell; one mistep leads to another)

Because THAT moment, that second, once lived is gone, never to be recaptured nor re-experienced ... and time and the impact of choices that other people make reshape and change the landscape in which one stands, frozen in indecision, unable to commit to a course of action. Words once uttered, cannot be unsaid.... actions once done, cannot be called back. But conversely, sometimes by taking action, it is a call to arms for others, it is the impetus needed for someone else to act, the encouragement provided that enables an uncertain person to move forward and do what is right.  Just one thing ....

Carpe diem.
Acta non verba
(Actions not words)

Because hesitate, allow fear to rule your emotions, entangle you in unbreakable strands of irresolution, stop you from stepping forward into ANY forward, ANY possibility... and the paths are no longer open to you – the vistas you thought immutable waver and disappear, illusions and phantoms of possibilities you chose not to take. Indecision solves nothing while taking that step, overcoming that fear, surmounting a reluctance to step forward and be heard CAN make a huge difference.

Carpe diem.
Mater memento mori
(Remember your mortality)

Because despite the philosophies, the concepts, the mythic proportions of some of our fantasies, THIS life, THIS one is all we`ve got, solid, corporeal, touchable, in our reality of mind and thought, ALL we can truly prove. And if we can make ONE difference in ONE creature’s life then that must be a good thing, a fine thing... and perhaps by so doing, others too will reach out and do that one thing.

Carpe diem.

None of us lives in a vacuum. Our choices or our failure to make choices impact on those entwined in our lives. And the passage of time and the constant proximity can lead to a form of blindness, a failure to recognize what is in front of your eyes. More damaging is the insidiousness of not hearing ... of at some level closing your ears to the words being said and interpreting situations in a manner palatable to what one WISHES to hear. Too many people close their eyes to what they know in their souls is wrong. Too many people turn away when they hear the dog yelp, the hungry cat cry, the creatures of the earth cry out.

Stultum est timere quod vitare non potes
(It is foolish to fear that which you cannot avoid. (Publilius Syrus))

Act and in that action find salvation.