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  As I travel through the world, interacting with hundreds and thousands of people, often have I been asked the secret to leading a life full of happiness, excitement and joy. Occasionally some people (the ones always looking for a short cut universal solution) have asked one single step / action through which they can achieve this seemingly blissful life. This post is my viewpoint about such one single step that can lead to living fully. ‘Letting go’ is truly the key to everything. All our miseries, sadness, failures, dejections, depressions, negativity, etc. arise from one single factor – as human we don’t let go and don’t like the idea of letting go and we are reluctant to the point of absurdity, to let go. Whereas letting go is the order of the very fabric of the universe, of nature, of life itself. When we go against this fundamental law of nature, no wonder, life eludes us. Let’s analyse this with an example. What do we need (not desire) the most to live...

  When someone refers to an ailment or physical condition as ‘fatal’ it sets me thinking with a quizzical smile that what is fatal after all. Dictionary definition says fatal is something that causes death (for human and animal species that is). But do only the living die or even the inanimate perish! But let’s not get too philosophical here lest we become as incomprehensible as the immortal book by Sartre ‘Being and Nothingness’, which no one in the world in their right mind has read in totality though most claim they have, and those very few who did hadn’t a clue what the book was trying to summarize. I know this for a fact because I am one of those very few who did (I am most certainly never in my right mind). Go figure. Now coming back to the main point. What is fatal and should we be afraid or wary of it. According to me Life itself is a fatal condition of existence. When life begins, it starts killing us at the rate of 24hrs per day. Not faster or slower. It maintains th...