Carpe Diem Research Paper

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Carpe Diem is a way of living, it may sound a bit risky for many people while others believe it is better to live their lives as fully as possible. Sometimes I wonder, can I live my life as if tomorrow does not exist? However, something deep inside of me is afraid. There are days that I wake up with Carpe Diem in my mind and believe life is meaningless without the craziness. We have to dare and challenge ourselves because otherwise life becomes monotonous, but then again, there are days that I believe I have to be more judicious with my actions. As Marilyn Monroe once said, “Fear is stupid. So are regrets.” Despite of having several points in its favor, Carpe Diem also has many cons. It all depends on what you want to do and if what you are …show more content…

We should take that anecdote into account just as I did so we can prevent bad experiences in the future. When I graduated from high school, all my promotion went to Cancun as a graduation trip. The trip lasted exactly one week, I believe there were many people who were guided by Carpe Diem, while others were more reserved and did not act without thinking of the consequences of their actions. Many times we get carried away by the moment. We all know that these graduation trips are all just about party hard, drink as much as you can, have sex and being crazy. During the trip, my best friends were my roommates. I remember that if there was one of us bathing or sleeping and the ones who were outside did not have the key to open the door, we tried to enter into the room through the balcony, however we were hosted on the second floor so it was not extremely dangerous. A year after my graduation, another group of students from Venezuela went to Cancun. It was about 6 in the morning when they reached the hotel after being partying in a famous nightclub. To their misfortune, one of the girls in that group was heavily drunk and did not have the keys to enter to the room so she tried to enter through the balcony just as we did several times. She fall to death from the seventh floor and died from multiple

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