Relationships are core to our life journey. But you don't need lots of amazing friends and a big community of like-minded people to be happy.

You can have a small handful of people who are meaningful to you and with whom you feel connected.

We do not need to always be open-minded, for there are situations where teaching, prosecuting, and lobbying are more suiting.

However, it may be beneficial to be more open-minded in general.

Death and disease are unavoidable aspects of life. However, in the West, we've developed a delusional denial of this. We pour billions into prolonging life, most employed in our final years, but fail to value life. The most regrets of the dying are cited as follows:

• I wish I'd ha...