³⁴In addition to reducing desires, Stoics proposed another approach to working with desires. It is also possible to align one’s desires with what can be more easily achieved in the world, instead of eliminating them. Epictetus takes this idea to the extreme by suggesting: “Don’t demand that things happen as you wish, but wish that they happen as they do happen, and you will go on well.” (The Enchiridion, Paragraph 8) If the only thing you want is that things happen as they do happen, how could there be any frustration? Your wishes will always be fulfilled.