Live Each Moment For What It's Worth By Emrma Bombeck Summary

Erma Bombeck, a popular newspaper columnists and essayist, in her essay “Live Each Moment for What It’s Worth,” writes about seizing the moment, “Too many people put off something that brings them joy just because they have not thought about it, do not have it on their schedule, did not know it was coming, or are too rigid to depart from the routine” (8). Bombeck’s purpose is to inspire people to live each life like there is no tomorrow and for everyone of us to enjoy the present and not give up on those chances and regret it later on. People should seize the moment and have a day to do whatever they want without having stress or people telling them that they can not do it. Seizing the moment means enjoy the present. To begin, we only live life once not everything in life will be a hundred percent perfect, so people should

It might be hard, but I gone through that and see what it has turned out to be. When I was back in middle school during that summer my friend wanted to go ride our bikes, but I had so much homework and had to study for my test for the very next day for summer school. I was so scared that I might fail my test, but the same time I also really wanted to go ride my bike with my friend, so I thought of an idea which is taking my homework and my notes that I needed to study for the next day with me in my backpack. We got to ride our bikes around for a few hours and then we went to the park and found a nice shady area to sit to do our homework and study while enjoying the sunset and watching the birds tweet. That day was the most memorable and fun day I got to seize the moment. Bombeck states, “I’d have died happy” (9). I seize the moment and found a way to the solution and did both things without just studying and doing homework. I did not know something that I almost wanted to break down end up