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found at Pompeii Mosaic representing the uncertain fate. CARPE DIEM

. This word, as used throughout the world, has its origins in the ancient world and especially the Romans.
Much of the ancient peoples believed that fate was not in his hands and was run by gods that made their lives what they wish. For this reason, many people that in his view, had little interference in the future of their lives, believed that what he had to do with the short and uncertain life, was living in the moment and not worry about the future.

Why worry about a future that was driven by other forces? such as the Fates, who spun, tangled, and finally cut it, when they wanted, the thread of life. So many men and women looking to satisfy all your desires and passions hiding behind the famous sentence and was because this concept of life, which is poorly understood the maxims of the famous philosopher of the Garden, Epicurus.

A good example of the strength I had this conception of life, can be found in the story that Herodotus, the father of history, a strange custom of the Egyptians who performed before a major feast.

According to this historian, before the servants came in with the food, walked an empty sarcophagus among the guests and only after all to see, appeared all the food and everyone could eat. Judging from
A by Herodotus, the Egyptians performed the rite in order for everyone to realize how short of life, and understand that if they were now eating with friends, tomorrow maybe, could be dead. Therefore, it was better to eat, drink their fill because no one knows the future.

also found many examples of this philosophy of life in the Roman world and one of the best exponents of this view of life, was the poet Horace, who wrote about this in many of his odes, and epigrams Epode. One of the most importates, Oda is 11.

"You do not ask-sin know! - What purpose to me, what gave you the gods, Leuconoe, or consult the Babylonian cabal.
much better to endure whatever comes, and if we have more winters us concedido Jupiter o si es el último éste que ahora deja sin fuerza al mar Tirreno batiéndolo contra los escollos que se le enfrentaba!
Sé sabia, filtra el vino y, siendo breve la vida, corta la esperanza larga. Mientras estamos hablando, habrá escapado envidiosa la edad: aprovecha el día, fiando lo menos posible en el que ha de venir."

Horacio. Oda 11
Epodos y Odas. Editorial Alianza. pg 77.