The acceptance of one's fate, our fate, my fate, can be the first step towards achieving freedom and happiness. So what do I mean by this, 'the acceptance of our fate'? Do I mean that we should become fatalistic, accepting whatever happens to us in life? Whatever experience befalls us, as 'our fate', and something which we should not resist, in any kind or form? What I am saying, even postulating, is not something which I have already thought through, applied and tested. And yet, although I am not versed in Buddhist, Confucian and/or Taoist thought, it seems to me that I am opening my train of thought towards their school of thought. No, I am not making a case the passive acceptance of whatever apparent and actual misfortunes befall us humans. I am not saying we should put our hands up - if we have hands - and surrender, become more of a 'prisoner to providence' than we originally are. No, definitely not. I am, even as ...