India, July 19 -- A practical decision becomes an emotional reckoning, revealing why unresolved feelings demand as much care as possessions.

'Vulnerability is not a liability. We cannot change what we do not acknowledge.' I wrote these lines for a client and just hours later, I felt myself living the deep truth of it.

We sold my car last night. And it made me sad. It was a lovely car-the drive feel was effortless and it was a sweet ride for the most part-but it was madly impractical. My car had a 'drinking problem,' I used to joke. But the truth was, we had bought it without doing sufficient homework and within weeks, realised it had been a mistake. The fuel gauge seemed to plummet whimsically, and we suffered range anxiety in a petrol ...