YOLO

Today at the gym I saw a guy wearing a shirt that said YOLO because when you live like us you only need to live once. I have nothing against YOLO as a philosophical concept, but I do generally despise the culture it has created. YOLO or "you only live once" should inspire each person to take responsibility for his/her own life and take action to create the greatest life possible, but instead people throw YOLO around as a way to rationalize things away. It's a shame that sayings like this CAN be analyzed in ways that are exact opposites of each other. But it is just how things are now, I suppose. The thing that gets me the most about YOLO is the stigma that the t-shirt expresses. YOU only live once and because of that YOU should live a lifestyle that I deem to be "really living". I just feel like people use YOLO as a way to fit in to a culture rather than a way to empower themselves.

Because of this, I will always prefer "Carpe Diem"- Seize the day! It seems classier because it's in Latin. ha. And for me, it is free of the stigma that there is a "right way" to live and to do things.