Is it important to suffer to gain deeper insights into one’s own characterIJ Is love a strong centripetal force that runs life. Is it possible to evolve and move to higher dimensions of life without accepting both pleasure and pain equallyIJ Does the path to seek oneself lie in letting goIJ These are few questions that Maya Dewan is looking answers for. Maybe somewhere we all are looking at such answers.
life happens to us in fragments. Every phase brings a different level of understanding. It is easier to let go of grudges if someone dies but it is hard to do the same if someone walks out of our life. How come external factors govern our happiness to an extent that we seize to live our own lives.
Few moments of letting go, though is a journey of a woman who walks through her life struggling with various situations life throws at her face. The only resolve she has is that of never giving up. A broken marriage, a failed relationship, demanding job and ups and downs with friends from day to day life and snapshots of soul wrenching love, it seems to be a travelogue of every woman bringing in pain, pleasure, bondage and finally liberation.
Maya Dewan represents an urban woman who is not ready to confine and settle for lesser than she deserves. The setting of the story is in Delhi and parts of Mumbai, showcasing the complexities of various characters that entangle with each other in life. It brings out the fact that while dipping in life suddenly a moment of serendipity can bring in fresh air from whereon a restless soul learns to live and not only exist in this world.
Few moments of letting go is a story of love, lust, friendship that we cannot escape yet we need to learn to let them go when they are done with. like one of the characters in the book says, “We all have a pervert side to us, Maya, a side that we never show to anyone else.” Nothing in this world is permanent and every sensitive soul deserves few moments where it can wash itself from all the baggage, and heal in those few moments “Residual emotions are even more dangerous than the actual ones. Just as actual hatred is less harmful than residual and latent hatred. latent emotions have a strong ability to destroy from the inside.”