This is the Shortcut to Ecstasy (Better than Drugs)
What remains except to enjoy life...so as to leave not even the smallest interval unfulfilled?
"Everything you're trying to reach—by taking the long way around—you can have right now, this moment. If you'd only stop thwarting your own attempts. If you'd only let go of the past, entrust the future to providence, and guide the present toward reverence and justice. Reverence: so you'll accept what you're allowed. Nature intended it for you and you for it. Justice: so that you'll speak the truth, frankly and without evasions, and act as you should—and as other people deserve." —Marcus Aurelius
It's crazy the lengths people go to secure validation, respect, happiness, peace. We're all guilty of it in some way: going to the gym to impress a girl, seeking political position to gain renown, blowing money on alcohol and girls to feel respected and desired, or going for multiple vacations in a year to enjoy life.
It’s interesting. We expend a lot of effort and resources to get a feeling one could get for free. However, since those actions are popular wi…
