Dead Poet's English Class

There is an amazing movie called the Dead Poet's Society (starring Robin Williams and the one guy that plays the one guy on House who's girlfriend killed himself or something, he was cute in this movie but not in house, but I digress), and in it Robin Williams says to the boys of the school, "Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it? --- Carpe --- hear it? --- Carpe, carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary." Another quote featured in the movie is from Thoreau, similar to the one that we wrote the Awakening paper on: "I went into the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life ... to put to rout all that was not life; and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." This sticks out to me more than any other quote I have read. In my life I wish to suck out "all of the marrow," to enjoy every day, through the good and the bad.  If I choose to write a novel, I will write a novel, if I choose to move to Texas, I wish to have the ability to move to Texas. This might be a little incohesive because my head is rather fuzzy and I start to ramble when I'm tired, but my point is that I want to live life exactly as the quote says... There was one quote that I read once, I don't remember it exactly, something about how I want to fall into my grave, bruised and scraped, and smiling all the way down. Life isn't truly lived if you die without a blemish. Women in the past, as Virginia Woolf explains, weren't able to do this. They were supressed because, they are just women, what good are their opinions? What I'm trying to say here, is that I am so happy to live in the time that we do, because if not I would not be able to die and discover that I HAD lived. I would, as Shakespeare's sister, have to use other means of expression, some not so great.  Because these women were not allowed to write, speak, walk, or act the way they truly would have liked, they were not able to live.  Carpe diem, seize the day, take everything you can to its full advantage and never let a day pass by where the decisions you make aren't your own. I'm just going to bow out now, and write a better blog next month. The thoughts here are in my brain, but aren't coming out with much sense here.