Carpe Diem!
Its hard to believe that we are moving into October of 2006. I remember sitting as a young boy and thinking how old I would be when the year 2000 came.... and now we are almost 6 years past that point. Time flies. When I talk to my grandparents... they tell me at their age, it seems like time is really flying... I have been thinking about that lately... why is it that time seems to go faster the older you get? Is time really speeding up? I don't think so. I think as we mature we begin to realize the value in each moment... and that once a moment is lost, we can never get it back. In the movie, Dead Poet's Society, Robin Williams plays a teacher at a boarding school for boys. In one great scene he takes them into a hallway to look at old photos of students from long years gone by and as they look at these old photographs, he says, "They're not that different from you, are they? Same haircuts. Full of hormones, just like you. Invincible, just like you feel. The world is their oyster. They believe they're destined for great things, just like many of you, their eyes are full of hope, just like you. Did they wait until it was too late to make from their lives even one iota of what they were capable? Because, you see gentlemen, these boys are now fertilizing daffodils. But if you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it? - - Carpe - - hear it? - - Carpe, carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary."
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