Carpe Diem

Carpe diem is a phrase from a Latin poem by Horace (Odes 1.11).
It is usually translated to "seize the day".

One interpretation of the phrase might be as an existential cautionary term, much like "eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die" with emphasis on making the most of current opportunities because life is short and time is fleeting. It has some connections with another Latin phrase, Memento mori.

"Leuconoe, don't ask--it's forbidden to know--
what end the gods will give me or you. Don't play with Babylonian
fortune-telling either. Better just deal with whatever comes your way.
Whether you'll see several more winters or whether the last one
Juppiter gives you is the one even now pelting the rocks on the shore with the waves
of the Tyrrhenian sea--be smart, drink your wine. Scale back your long hopes
to a short period. Even as we speak, envious time
is running away from us. Seize the day (Carpe diem), and trust as little as possible in the future."

Shakespeare's version of the theme takes the following form in Twelfth Night:
What is love? 'Tis not hereafter;Present mirth has present laughter; What's to come is still unsure.In delay there lies no plenty,Then come and kiss me sweet and twenty; Youth's a stuff will not endure...

Seize the day!

All the best for the coming week!

Hugz!
C