{"id":5288,"date":"2019-10-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T18:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bijays.com.np\/musicpervs\/?p=5288"},"modified":"2019-10-13T00:31:05","modified_gmt":"2019-10-12T18:46:05","slug":"one-day-at-a-time-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bijays.com.np\/musicpervs\/2019\/10\/10\/one-day-at-a-time-2\/","title":{"rendered":"One day at a time"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\">2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><h1 style=\"text-align: center;\" data-v-101110cb=\"\">MARO &#8211; Still Feel it all<\/h1>\n<p><iframe width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0V--8Xc3LlM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"card-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\" data-v-101110cb=\"\"><em>To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time <\/em><\/h1>\n<h4 class=\"card-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8211;\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/poets.org\/poet\/robert-herrick\" target=\"_self\" data-v-101110cb=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Robert Herrick<\/a><span class=\"dates\" data-v-101110cb=\"\">\u00a0&#8211; 1591-1674<\/span><\/em><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"long-line\">Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"long-line\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Old Time is still a-flying;<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"long-line\">And this same flower that smiles today<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"long-line\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Tomorrow will be dying.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>For quite sometime now, I&#8217;ve been living with a maxim,\u00a0<em>one day at a time<\/em>. Sure, there are plenty of hard core narratives thrown around this synonymous sentiment as simple as &#8220;Carpe Diem!&#8221;\u00a0 &#8212; A latin aphorism which means, &#8220;Seize the day&#8221;. Well, honestly, it&#8217;s quite sad that I&#8217;ve also seen remarkably fucked up selfies and poses on social media with captions this profound. Perhaps they were feeling it, but <strong>F<\/strong>uck them all, with capital F.<\/p>\n<p>In the same token, as Robin williams put it, &#8220;We are foods for worms lads&#8230;&#8221; in his remarkable movie, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ec8FOZvcPVM\">Dead Poet Society<\/a> or as Carl Sagan explained to us about our infinitesimal identity as little as the size of a dust mote\u00a0in his best humanity speech <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wupToqz1e2g\">here<\/a>\u00a0&#8212; I confront that every single day after the earthquake of 25th April, 2015, I&#8217;ve tried my best to fully invest my time and energy for things that only mattered to me. Work. People. Hobbies. Books. Youtube. Every shit.<\/p>\n<p>Colin wright in his book, Act accordingly writes,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cYOU HAVE EXACTLY ONE LIFE in which to do everything you will ever do. Act accordingly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Excerpt From: Wright, Colin. \u201cAct Accordingly.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See truth is, in the world of abundance where we exist today. With abundance of information. Abundance of distractions. Abundance of connections. Abundance of addiction. Abundance of choices &#8212; in this chaotic movie of collective life ecosystem, one way or perhaps the only <strong>way<\/strong> to reclaim and enrich our individual life, in a broad scheme of things is to just get rid of the exce<strong>ss<\/strong>. Decrease options per se! Because, what I&#8217;ve realised personally is that when you do this more and more &#8212; this process of deliberate seclusion and elimination, in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OKJImnk-gzQ\">words<\/a> of Matthwe McConaughey, &#8220;&#8230; you&#8217;d have accidently. Almost innocently put in front of you what is important to you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This dashain, one thing I tried to make sure is that i reach out to my best people. And now you know who you are and who you are not!<\/p>\n<p>One day at a time.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8230;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun,<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">The higher he\u2019s a-getting,<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">The sooner will his race be run,<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">And nearer he\u2019s to setting.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">That age is best which is the first,<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">When youth and blood are warmer;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">But being spent, the worse, and worst<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Times still succeed the former.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Then be not coy, but use your time,<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">And while ye may, go marry;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">For having lost but once your prime,<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">You may forever tarry.<\/div>\n<p>Finally, pondering&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. ~ Sherlock Holmes&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\">2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span> MARO &#8211; Still Feel it all To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time &#8211;\u00a0Robert Herrick\u00a0&#8211; 1591-1674 Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Old Time&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/bijays.com.np\/musicpervs\/2019\/10\/10\/one-day-at-a-time-2\/\">Continue Reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">One day at a time<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[80,81],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bijays.com.np\/musicpervs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5288"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bijays.com.np\/musicpervs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bijays.com.np\/musicpervs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bijays.com.np\/musicpervs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bijays.com.np\/musicpervs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5288"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/bijays.com.np\/musicpervs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5330,"href":"http:\/\/bijays.com.np\/musicpervs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5288\/revisions\/5330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bijays.com.np\/musicpervs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bijays.com.np\/musicpervs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bijays.com.np\/musicpervs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}