What do you think to the saying, life is short, eat the cake, take the trip buy the shoes …..

[LovelyYellowLabrador]

What do you think ?

I agree with the sentiment. I was widowed at 36, my DH only 38. It changed my whole attitude on life.

My best friend died suddenly at 42. Ridiculously, one of the first things I thought was that she should have just eaten and not worried so much about constantly dieting.

You never know what is around the corner. A bit of balance is needed but yes, live for today, it could all be gone tomorrow.

Stuffing your face and material objects won’t bring happiness

I'm sure it was Nanny Ogg who said something to the effect of, she didn't want to walk into death upright and proper, she wanted to slide in sideways with a bottle of wine in her hand.

It's what I live by. If you like doing something, do it. No need to be stupid about it and get into debt, but there is no point in always sticking to the rules that society has set up. Which is no different from the saying about eating the cake.

It's basically Carpe Diem. Why the need to be so bitchy?

I agree with it (even though it's a bit cringe ) definitely use the nice glasses treat every day like it's a special one etc.

I prefer 'we are all here on a day trip and we never know when the coach is coming to pick us up.'

It speaks to me that as we don't know how long we have, we need to get busy with whatever we think our purpose us.

But I also agree with eat the cake and buy the shoes.... which is why I have too many shoes and need to go on a soup diet before summer.

I very much believe in not keeping things 'for best', but I'm not sure that is applicable to this...

It does sound like marketing hype for BooHoo, Miss Guided type of company. The sentiment I would tend to agree with. "Live each day as your last and one day you will be right" is more blunt.

It's like anything though surely...there's a balance!!

I lost my parents early and tragically. My dad at 54, my mum at 69 suddenly in an accident.
My inheritance is invested to retire at 55 and spend it travelling. I don't want to be a well off pensioner sitting on pots of money but enjoying nothing, like a few I know.

My lovely friend when she had her terminal diagnosis said all this “live life to the full” was impossible. Admitted she bothered less about sun cream but ended up going back to work as she enjoyed it and “live/laugh//love live each day as your last” and eating chocolate cake all the time just wasn’t realistic or even that enjoyable after a while. She died in 2016 aged 43.

For the most part, life is a long, costly, relentless slog. So whilst I will eat cake and take a trip, I won't do that enough that it has a detrimental effect on paying for my 75-80 years on the planet.

It's the latest iteration of Carpe Diem

They're not the actions that excite me (and yes you need to avoid ending up fat and broke )

I like the carpe diem aspect. I don’t like the implication that the things we’re all longing to do are eat cake and buy shoes- a bit of a sexist and reductive stereotype.

I too prefer eat, drink and be merry. I don't really like cake and am not into shoes but agree with the trips part.

I do hate these twee homilies though

I have friends who work hospice and they all say the same thing. People regret the things they didn't do, more than the things they did. My grandmother was one of those people who saved everything for best, I think it was pretty common for her generation. Then when she was too old to make the most of it she just gave things away.