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One life to live

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  ONE LIFE TO LIVE Mario D’Couto             After having lost two people who were very close to me, my grandma and my dad, it’s been a very trying time for me and perhaps, you may be able to relate with it too. This situation that we have all be caught up in, this pandemic, has thrown everything upside down and while I have been reflecting over it, I think I will share that in a later post but for now, the focus of this blogpost/reflection is going to be on the phenomenon of death.             Irrespective of our social status, where we come from, whatever our personalities may be and so on, two things that unite the entire human family are birth and death. When we are born, we come with nothing and when we die, we go with nothing. Yet we spend our time pursuing things that in the long term may not bring us lasting fulfilment that we all long for. Sometimes even after achieving our goal...