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What it really means to 'seize the day'
“把握今天”的真谛，到底是什么？
By Fiona Macdonald
One way to do this, Krznaric suggests, is to “appreciate that hedonism has long been central to human culture, personal expression and passionate living, and it is essential that we find a place for it in modern life.”
“But in the carpe diem tradition, something like hedonism has never really been so much about excess, it’s been about rediscovering the senses, rediscovering direct experience.”
Another thing that stops us from seizing the day is an aversion to facing our own mortality. “We live in a culture of death denial, because the advertising industry tells us that we’re forever young,” says Krznaric.
“But one of the cornerstones of carpe diem thinking for the last two millennia has been that idea of having a taste of death on your mind – because how do we really take action if we think we’ll live forever?”
It’s something we need to remind ourselves of today. As the writer and philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre put it: “There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn, and taken away from us at dusk.”
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