Catullus V

In Catullus 5, He tries to seduce Lesbia with "the YOLO tactic." What this essentially is

is saying,"You only have one life to live, so why waste it not loving me when you could be loving me?" It may sound arrogant when stated clearly like that, the arrogance is much better disguised by clever wording such as Catullus's. He starts off his argument by proving to her that he's on her side. He's showing that he believes the rumors going around about her are false. Whether or not he really does is unimportant. What is important is that he also adds that loving him is directly connected to disregarding the rumors. It almost seems as though he's trying to say that in order to disprove those rumors, she must love him. He then goes on to compare the amount of time they have to live to the eternity in which the sun can live (Well, it's actually only expected to have about twelve billion years, over four and a half of which are over, but it's still dwarfing to our own life expectancies). If that doesn't give you the pressure to do as much as possible in as little time as you can, I don't know what will. Then, he tries to be romantic by exaggerating the number of kisses she should give him. Personally, I think that 3,300 kisses sounds too daunting. He sums it all up by adding some romantic garbage (albeit very beautiful garbage) to the end.

Regretfully, a song I thought I would never want to speak of normally came to mind

when trying to think of a song or poem that used the same argument to try and convince someone to love the songwriter/poet. The song is... Live While We're Young by One Direction. The lyrics, found here, in the chorus especially instruct that the intended recipient forget about all doubts or worries and at least pretend that they're in love with the singer (in this case five guys--OH MY!) because YOLO. One lyric from a verse, while looking through just now, particularly caught my eye to make this case, "Hey girl it's now or never, it's now or never | Don't overthink, just let it go." This lyric clearly says, "Hey, love me! What's that you're trying to decide? Well, too bad! If you wait any longer, you'll die and miss your chance! [And I thought it was rude to call a girl old] Just act now and don't miss out on this limited offer to be in love with the great and marvelous me!"

This shows that this method of attempting to convince someone to love you through the

"YOLO Method" does work because 8-14-year-old girls around the world who think this song was written for them immediately fall in love with all 5 of these guys upon thinking they hear the song.