Jemma Spike

if you cannot practice it.

And that is why the fruit is so essential.

Philosophy is not meant to be something that is just admired.

It's meant to be something that's practiced.

And the ultimate aim for Stoics and for everybody is to have a flourishing life.

And especially for the Stoics, it's to have a flourishing life that is not achieved through wealth or through external success, but through character.

So it basically says everything that we've said about how the world works and

your control of things in the world, it doesn't matter.

How should you act so that you are your happiest and so that you are a good person and so that you have accepted the things that you can't change and basically you are focused on the things that you can.

This is why I think

A stoic mindset is the best mindset you can have in your 20s, which I've already said, but I need to really nail down this point.

So much of our 20s is just trying to force things to happen in one specific way according to what we think would make us the happiest.

I'm going to meet the love of my life at this age.

Then we're going to move cities at this time.

And then by 27, 28, I'll have my dream job, my dream life.

And it's all going to work out exactly as I want.

But it's not always up to you.

Honestly, most of it is just luck.

And that really sucks.

But the people who I found enjoy their 20s the most just lean so deeply into the flow of the universe that they almost don't care where they end up because they know that if they're kind and they know that if they work hard, they're going to end up somewhere amazing.