Imagine walking through {{username}}, in a bustling city where the lights of luxury, the beautiful cars, the store fronts, the trendiest restaurants all attract the envious glances of those who covet endlessly. They want to live the life they don't have, which consists of beauty, glitter and the illusion of happiness.
In his wisdom, Marcus Aurelius compares us to dogs pouncing on a bone or fish wriggling for a piece of bread.
For Marcus Aurelius, all these things are superficial distractions, lures that distract us from the essentials.