I graduate high school, am now attending college. and all my friends are now stoners. At dinner last night out of the 11 people there, 10 of them are current stoners. late night outtings till 2am with friends seems lame. i have a ton of homework for college.
I was at the movies and saw this advertisment from the La times which said, "Weekends are made for exploring, adventure."
Carpe Diem means Seize the day, to live each day to the fullest even if it is your last.
Being here in southern california for my entire life seems boring. here in norwalk, cerritos, long beach area it seems like i have done it all. there is no longer anything to do.
How can i seize the day when i have a ton of homework, my friends are boring, and im in a city where nothing happens?
What is the point of life? I've been thinking the answer is to enjoy and experience what we can...but what? The weekend is here...so what do i do?
CARPE DIEM....How?
2006-10-20 12:14:30 · 10 answers · asked by Legionnaire 1 in Health ➔ Mental Health
"What is the meaning of life?" is a question many people ask themselves at some point during their lives, most in the context "What is the purpose of life?" Here are some of the many potential answers to this perplexing question:
Survival and temporal success
* ...to accumulate wealth and increase social status
* ...to advance natural human evolution, or to contribute to the gene pool of the human race
* ...to advance technological evolution, or to actively develop the future human
* ...to compete or co-operate with others
* ...to destroy others who harm you, or to practice nonviolence and nonresistance
* ...to die having succeeded in your purpose
* ...to gain and exercise power
* ...to leave a legacy, such as a work of art or a book
* ...to live
* ...to produce offspring through sexual reproduction or asexual reproduction
* ...to protect one's family
* ...to pursue a dream, vision, or destiny
* ...to seek freedom, either physically, mentally or financially
* ...to seek happiness and flourish, experience pleasure or celebrate
* ...to survive, including the pursuit of immortality through scientific means (see life extension)
* ...to complete your list of life goals
* ...to find something to believe
Wisdom and knowledge
* ...to be without question, or to keep asking questions
* ...to find out the meaning of life
* ...to expand one's perception of the world
* ...to explore, to expand beyond our frontiers
* ...to learn from one's own and others' mistakes
* ...to seek truth, knowledge, understanding, or wisdom
* ...to try to discover and understand the meaning of life
* ...to understand creation
Ethical
* ...to achieve a supernatural connection within the natural context
* ...to achieve enlightenment and inner peace
* ...to achieve rebirth in the Pure Land
* ...to become like God, or God-like
* ...to be rewarded for your deeds
* ...to experience existence from an infinite number of perspectives in order to expand the consciousness of all there is (i.e. God)
* ...to express compassion
* ...to follow the "Golden Rule"
* ...to give and receive love
* ...to live in a way that you don't harm yourself and don't harm your environment
* ...to work for justice and freedom
Religious and spiritual
* ...to be a filter of creation between heaven and hell
* ...to die and become a martyr
* ...to live in peace with each other, and in harmony with our natural environment (see utopia)
* ...to produce useful structure in the universe over and above consumption (see net creativity)
* ...to protect humanity, or more generally the environment
* ...to reach Heaven in the afterlife
* ...to seek and acquire virtue, to live a virtuous life
* ...to serve others, or do good deeds
* ...to turn fear into joy at a constant rate achieving on literal and metaphorical levels: immortality, enlightenment and atonement
* ...to understand and follow the "Word of God"
* ...to worship, serve, or achieve union with God
* ...to disprove the existence of a or all all gods
Other
* ...to find true love
* ...to achieve self-actualisation
* ...to contribute to collective meaning ("we" or "us") without having individual meaning ("I" or "me")
* ...to find a purpose, a "reason" for living that hopefully raises the quality of one's experience of life, or even life in general
* ...to live, and enjoy the passage of time
* ...to have fun
* ...to participate in the inevitable increase in entropy of the universe
* ...to make the conformists' lives miserable (see non-conformism)
* ...to participate in the chain of events which has led from the creation of the universe until its possible end (either freely chosen or determined, this is a subject widely debated amongst philosophers)
* ...to relate, connect, or achieve unity with others
* ...to resolve all problems that one faces, or to ignore them and attempt to fully continue life without them, or to detach oneself from all problems faced (see Buddhism)
* ...to seek and find beauty
* ...as there is no intrinsic meaning to life, to each individual, the "meaning of life" is whatever he/she decides it is. In that sense, every point above is potentially valid.
* ...an answer to the question "What is the meaning of life?" is that it is just simply being able to ask the question, "What is the meaning of life?" (see Sri Sri Ravi Shankar below)
* ...to determine a set of goals based on an individuals belief in the meaning of life and work towards the attainment of those objectives.
* ...a combination of any of the above.
* ...42
No purpose, and therefore...
* ...to simply live until one dies (there is no universal or celestial purpose)
* ...just a series of events
* ...just nature taking its course
* ...the wheel of time keeps on turning
* ...the cycle of life
* ...whatever you see you see, as in "projection makes perception"
* ...there is no purpose or meaning whatsoever (see nihilism)
* ...who cares?
* ...because nobody will ever love you.
* ...life may actually not exist, this is all a surreal dream.
But most importantly
* ...not to die.
2006-10-21 15:39:54 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ok, I don't know any other way to answer this and not sound stupid. I work as a legal specialist all week. I get home exhausted and drained from the people I absolutely cannot help, for whatever reason. My Carpe Diem has always been about life, whether helping people or taking care of myself. Believe it or not I go on Yahoo Answers as one part of my "sieze the day" I try to take what knowledge I have and pass it on (pay it forward so to speak). You have the weekend and lots of homework, try and balance the two, even if you only take a couple hours off the homework, go to the local store and buy all the comfort stuff you had as a kid. YoYo, your favorite candy. Or best of all, think of someone you have not talked to in awhile and call them. You might be amazed.
2016-05-22 06:06:59 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You ever take road trips to see the country? You're right near some pretty amazing stuff. Go take a long weekend and drive out to Yosemite or Death Valley or something, or take a week and drive somewhere cool. I took one random road trip in college, and then I liked it so much I went on three more in my last year. It's great because you get to do something unique with your friends, see some cool country side, and maybe help you focus on what's important in life - because what the meaning of life is depends entirely on you, and it sounds like you need to get away from your surfer town (I was there once, it was ok but I would get sick of it too) and clear your head some.
2006-10-20 12:20:06 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well it seems to me that you are as lost as every one else in the universe.
So carpe Diem any way you want.
You are so blind that you can't even see sitting outside do nothing but relaxing for entire day, is really seizing a day.
It may just be that I am in a bad mood, that my words seem valor, or it may be that I am sick of people that think smoking pot, and going to work and just having fun in life is seizing a day.
(Shakes head in disgust)
2006-10-20 12:24:05 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You could try setting a goal for each day, like "today I will start a conversation with someone I normally wouldn't talk to" or "today I will eat that sushi I've been afraid to try".
When I do this, I usually feel accomplished. Like I've seized the day and made it special, even thought what I did was something small and maybe trivial.
2006-10-20 12:24:49 · answer #5 · answered by eileezy2002 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Learn to be grateful! Appreciate the life you have. Say "Thank you" to God if you believe, and to others around you. Seize every moment you have as a treasured gift!
Be excited about who you are! This is how you live live to the fullest, not climbing mountains or vacations on the beach.
2006-10-20 12:31:40 · answer #6 · answered by hazydaze 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go to a marina and offer to help people sail there boats.
Ride a bicycle to a park, then play frisbee. others will join in.
Take a walk and choose a type of object to focus on, circles, triangles, blobs.
See how many red things are outside.
Count the number of steps to the store. then do the square root of that number and walk North.
2006-10-20 12:28:32 · answer #7 · answered by Yawn Gnome 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
get a motorcycle live life enjoy freedom live to ride join the fellowship
2006-10-20 12:17:38 · answer #8 · answered by quasar 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The kingdom of heaven is within
2006-10-20 12:25:36 · answer #9 · answered by rl153 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
live life to-day as though it was your last,plan to-day as though you will live forever.
2006-10-20 12:22:01 · answer #10 · answered by glasgow girl 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋