carpe diem~

Carpe diem,

quam minimum credula postero

"Seize the day,

 trusting as little as possible in the future",

Quintus Horatius Flaccus

Original usage from

 Odes 1.11

Tu ne quaesieris, scire nefas, quem mihi, quem tibi 

finem di dederint, Leuconoe, nec Babylonios
temptaris numeros. ut melius, quidquid erit, pati. fortune-telling either.

seu pluris hiemes seu tribuit Iuppiter ultimam,

quae nunc oppositis debilitat pumicibus mare

Tyrrhenum: sapias, vina liques et spatio brevi

spem longam reseces. dum loquimur, fugerit invida to a short period.
aetas: carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero. latin

 

Don't ask (it's forbidden to know) what end

 Don't play with Babylonian

It is better to endure whatever will be.

Whether Jupiter has allotted to you many more winters or this final one

which even now wears out the Tyrrhenian sea on the rocks placed opposite

be wise, strain the wine, and scale back your long hopes

 to a short period. While we speak, envious time will have {already} fled

 Seize the day, trusting as little as possible in the future.

i remember dead poets society

as a young girl

and those words remained

 

 "Carpe diem.

 Seize the day, boys.

Make your lives extraordinary."

 

the sign above

i made as a reminder

to take hold of my life

in those times

when i feel life is slipping through my fingers

like tiny grains of sand