One life: live it

Si tecum mihi, care Martialis,
securis liceat frui diebus,
si disponere tempus otiosum
et verae pariter vacare vitae:
nec nos atria, nec domos potentum,
nec litis tetricas forumque triste
nossemus, nec imagines superbas;
sed gestatio, fabulae, libelli,
campus, porticus, umbra, Virgo, thermae,
haec essent loca semper, hi labores.
nunc vivit necuter sibi, bonosque
soles effugere atque abire sentit,
qui nobis pereunt et inputantur.
quisquam vivere cum sciat, moratur? 

If you and I had the chance to enjoy our time without worries,

if we could use our days for leisure and live life to the full,

we would not waste it in the hallways and houses of the rich and powerful.

We’d be strangers to the courts and the dull forum. We’d waste no time paying respects to even illustrious forebears.

No. We’d dawdle, tell stories, read books. We’d enjoy the open air, stroll in the shade, exercise, relax at the baths.

Yes, these would be our workplaces.

Right now, neither of us lives as if we matter. We feel our sunny days slip away and disappear. They are lost to us forever, but still go down on our tab.

Does anyone who knows how to live waste any time in getting started ?