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While I think the sentiment is sweet, actually living every day as if it were my last would wreak havoc on my retirement fund.
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My last days are morose and not triumphant, if I'm to judge by works rendered in the thrall of death!
quote:Old Sitting Man, his leg broken, sang his death song in the snow, until a soldier blew out his brains. White Antelope had done so much as he had,
Nothing lives long / Only the earth and mountains.
Arms folded, and sat; to know ever more a true sorrow the world had known; time passed, stretched them over the saddle-bows and wore them over their hats while riding in the ranks went ghoulish trophies, unspeakable things. The day was seized by the fallen --
we live to sing the day's praises as we do descend from those with the intent. Eat the savage. Carpe diem.
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I'm not too fond of the movie either. Even if I did go to a vaguely similar boarding school where I met my non-conformist English teacher; the most intelligent and well read man I know.
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Also, if I lived any day as if it were my last, that would probably facilitate the day actually being my last.
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but it is also true that some people sit around all the time.. doing nothing.
My point is that I wouldn't want to die tomorrow and not have done what I could... I would like to be satisfied with the things I have accomplished and to be able to say that the people I love and care about know my feelings for them.
But if I am dead I can't talk so I don't think I will be saying any of that
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Yeah, that's definitely true. But doing nothing has its benefits that you might not be seeing. Buddha certainly thought it was worth doing.
Sometimes a couple days of doing nothing are just what you need. Even if you're just sitting around watching TV, you still end up reflecting on things and getting time to relax.
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Carp is the traditional Czech Christmas dinner. Or at least that's what I was told when *having* Christmas dinner in Prague. They may not have had anything else.
Fried carp and 2 different types of potato salad. Actually VERY yummy!
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Nah. Puellae is nominative - it would have to be the subject. When it is the direct object, it is puellas.
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Sorry, I didn't mean that. It was more to settle the earlier discussion of 'noctum' versus 'noctem'. The former means "of (the) nights" and the latter means "(the) night" direct object.
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Yesterday got away from me before I was able to seize it. Does anyone know where I can get a day trap.
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Hatrack works as a time trap for me. Not sure I've ever lost a whole day to it, but it could happen.
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