CARPE DIEM, ENJOY LIFE
By João Marcos Bezerra ( jmarcoscb@gmail.com ) Translated by Talyta Rolim Base Text: Ec 11.8 – 12.7 (NIV version) If you already know this phrase and hear it what goes on in your head? Carpe Diem is a Latin phrase, written a poem by Horace, Roman poet and philosopher who lived shortly before Christ, it means, "reap the day" or "seize the moment". Prof. Keating, character played by Robin Williams in the movie “Dead Poets Society”, 1989, also recited it in the following sentence: "Carpe, carpe diem, reap the day boys, make your lives extraordinary." When you hear the term "enjoy the moment”, what do you think? By reading the Bible book of Ecclesiastes, I realized that the king and wise Solomon makes this call to his readers: " However many years anyone may live, let them enjoy them all " (v. 8). But, before you go out to get drunk, pick up every girl or boy, hook up with whoever you want and enjoy a life without rules, look