In his essay on the shortness of life, Seneca talks about living

>>3090113
Do you think its about length and not about quality? Because a lot of people wish that their day would has been last,.

>>3090161
Good point

>>3090113
He was also killed by the Roman emperor so ...

>>3090113

Meditation.

>>3090113
Through Stoic virtue pal

>>3091005
but how

I am perfectly content with just sitting on my ass all day and browsing the internet

Doing stupid shit like bungeejumping or riding a jetski won't make me a happier person

>>3091008
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apatheia

you literally cannot exist anywhere else but in the present

if it really was my last day I'd spend it crying and getting drunk with my family

this is nothing but an ancient version of yolo LOVE EAT PRAY LOVE LAUGH CUM RAPE

>>3091005
>not Epicureanism

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>>3090113

Its evolutionary not to do that because it would not result in making and raising children in a stable environment.

If you really lived your day like your last, you would eat all the food, rape all the women, kill all other men, and then burn all your own shit.

Then society would collapse and the human race would die out so humans are programmed to think more long term.

>>3090113
>but how can we achieve that
thats an awfully personal question to ask strangers, m8