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The art of letting go

                There was a famous story in Buddhism about two monk who was about to cross a river when they met a beautiful woman who asked for help in crossing it. One of the monk carried her in his back to the other side of the river and the two monk continue their journey. There was silence for some time until the one monk asked the other why she carried the woman  in his back when they had made a vow that they should never touched a woman. The monk who carried the woman replied " I set her a long time ago, why you are still carrying her?".                 Letting Go isn't easy. Attachment is a nature man thus we tend to think that everything is in our control yet nothing is permanent, things will change and we will never change the outcome making the only choice was to let go or to hold on to what is gone. Life is never about being in control, most of the times we are powerless. We can't cont...

On Quarter Life Crisis And Existential Crisis

     What is life? Why i am here on all the space in the universe? Does my life matter?   Questions asking answers but is the answer more important than the question itself for life has  no meaning until we give meaning to it. Does it makes life subjective?   On one episode of Rick and Morty. Morty tells her sister summer when she tried to run away from their home when she learned that she was a result of unplanned pregnancy this quote "No body exist on purpose. No body belongs anywhere. Everybody's gonna die. come watch TV?"  He tried to dissuade her from leaving by telling her that he's a Morty from another multiverse and that  the Morty and rick of that universe was buried in their backyard.  It sounds depressing at first but it was very comforting words coming from morty. No body will get out of this life alive, Everyone of us will gonna die and just become fertilizing daffodils. There was no ingrained meaning in li...