Stoicism teaches us we can choose to follow the cart of fate willingly, with gratitude for every event that occurs. Or we can resist fate and get dragged through life, yelping all the way. Either providence or atoms. Where do we begin with the discipline of desire? We begin where marcus did, with the present moment, so that nothing may steal into your mind. Brave men on providence. That is, if we focus on what is up to us and trust the rest to the providential cosmos.