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I will keep adding more entries to this list as time goes on. Become financially independent. Buy a house. Visit as many waterfalls as I can all over the world. Read 100 books. Visit the dead sea in Israel. Snorkel or dive with dolphins. Go camel riding into the Moroccan desert. Climb a volcano. Watch an NBA game live in person. Watch a Japanese sumo wrestling in person. Become a professional trail runner. Become a backpacker, go on hiking adventures into the wilderness and camping. Get married and have my own family, go on family vacations. Create a family tree. Make friends all over the world. Learn a new skill every year. Continue to practice stoic life lessons. Eat a balanced diet. Retire before 45 years old.

Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epictetus, and all the other great stoics of that generation have left us some guiding principles and virtues to live life by. Living in agreement with nature. Living in harmony with the universe and with ourselves. Being consistent between our thoughts and actions, this allows us to flow through life smoothly with inner peace. Flourishing as individuals and fulfilling our human nature. This is the source of happiness. The nature of self, of the world, of thoughts, of things, of actions, of that which surround us, which are within our control and that which is not in our control and how we interact with internal and external events. True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence on the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient. How can we live a happy life? According to Marcus Aurelius, if we follow the 4 cardinal virtues, it is possible to live a meaningful life th...