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Great 1. I believe that to â€Å"seize the day† means to suck all the marrow out of life. You must grab every opportunity life gives you and make the best of it. Don’t just stop and smell the roses, you have to taste the roses, feel the roses, and be the roses! That is the difference between seizing the day and seizing the opportunity. The opportunity will sometimes seize you, but you must seize the day. It will never seize you. This is what â€Å"seize the day† meant to Thoreau. 2. To â€Å"live deliberately† is to â€Å"simplify.† What you must do is look for the bare necessities, those simple bare necessities. You’ve got to forget about your worries and your strife. If you look for the bare necessities, Old Mother Nature’s recipes, then the bare necessities of life will come to you. 3. Robert Frost wrote â€Å"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood and I-I took the one less traveled by-and that has made all the difference.† Sitting here writing this I can think of only one thing: the HOV lane on I-85 Southbound. As I watch the fools in the much traveled lanes I fight to contain my glee. My lane, the one less traveled, is much less crowded. I can go ten miles in my lane in the time it takes others to go one. I have been able to sleep much later since the opening of the lane, and that has made all the difference. I have more energy, the rings around my eyes are gone, I even have time to eat a nice breakfast, I’m less irritable, and I get more homework done. That my friends has made all the difference. 4. â€Å"Find your own walk.† Well, yes I suppose I could, but wouldn’t it be easier if I just borrowed one of yours. I mean, what does it really mean to find your own walk? Granted you must find your own walk to be your own individual, but it’s just so hard. Sure I’d be happier and fulfilled, but happiness is highly overrated. No, I think I’ll march to that big drum in the sky. I’ll march along as it whispers into my ear left, right, left, right†¦Yes, I think that’s what I’ll do. 5. â€Å"Make your lives extraordinary.† We must take our lives, our mundane little lives, and live them.