Carpe diem quam minime credula postero –
How is it that one mans nature whispers to get busy cleaning the dishes....and another man hears a shout to "climb a tree."
We can still hear the voice, though faint....and we should listen.
"Seize the day, trusting as little as possible in the future", and the ode says that the future is unknowable, and that instead one should scale back one's hopes to a brief future, and drink one's wine. Compare with the Biblical "eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die", a conflation, with emphasis on making the most of current opportunities because life is short and time is fleeting – an existential caution.....(Horace)
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