They’re a way of looking at life with a filter called religion or you can look at life the way Jesus did and live all out, full tilt, 100%. Life is supposed to more than just a journey to the grave, putting off the end as much as we possibly can. In Latin there is this idea of Carpe Diem, in English – seize the day, that every day we are given the opportunity to do great things and we should seize those daily opportunities.