Although there are plenty of resources that teach what surrender means and the mechanism of letting go, I still felt like I was driving a car without my glasses when it came to performing the act of surrendering. I was sitting in the driver’s seat; fear and the desperate hope for nothing bad to happen were the ones steering the wheel and hitting the break. After countless attempts to live a happy life by following the manual of how to surrender, I recognized I could not walk the path of heart intellectually.

The ultimate goal of everything we do is to be happy in life. It could be as simple as enjoying a succulent meal or it could be as grandiose as changing the world. One may seem more noble than the other according to the society’s opinion but the motivation behind both actions is the same - we want to feel happy. If everything we do is to be happy in life, why are we still so unhappy 90% of the time? Why isn’t being happy the constant state of being for us? Instead, so many people suffer from anxiety, fear and depression.