Miniver Cheevy and the concept of YOLO

What is the phrase people have been saying? YOJO? YOGO? 

No, I've got it, YOLO! 

It means: You Only Live Once.

People use it to describe life and how to seize every moment. 

Nemo is going to touch the boat because "you only live once".

Miniver Cheevy, would rather say You Only Live at the Wrong Time.

Yes, that is a bit wordy but this character in the poem, "Miniveer Cheevy" by Edwin Arlington Robinson, wants only to live in Medieval Times. He currently lives in the 1900s, about 3000 years from the end of the Renaissance. Sucks for him right? Well he thinks so too.  

Miniver longs to be in a place where “swords were bright and steeds were prancing” (Edwinson, 778). He convinces himself that he was born in the wrong millennia and wishes “that he was never born” (Edwinson, 778) . At the end of poem, he decides that being born out of time was only fate and kept on drinking alcohol to numb the pain of being a misfit in the 20^th century.

Robinson was the early developer of the concept YOLO and is trying to show us how to live like we only have one life.

He makes Miniver have a drinking problem to exemplify the fact that if you are not excited about where and when you are living, accept that fact, move on, and then accept the fact that you are unique and You Only Live Once.

My advice to you, Reader, and Miniver: YOLO.