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Seizing Life
Carpe diem — cost included.
Seize the day is easy on a poster. Harder at the register — fruit plucked, chance taken, fear still auditing the receipt.
Opportunity rots if you only admire it. Audacity is not noise. It is appetite with deadlines.
Nerve and endeavor leave marks that may not glow in dark rooms. That is not failure. That is contact with real time.
Life is short is not an excuse for performance art. It is a rate limit on deferral.
Passion loves with its whole mouth. Spirit plays its part knowing the part includes loss.
Every breath is not a triumph. Some are maintenance.
Brave is continuing without requiring the day to save you.
The day still runs. You still take your bite.
JV · Dark Heart Labs