India, Jan. 11 -- During a recent discussion on our sports-centric WhatsApp group, about the shortest names in sport, the very short name of Li Na, former French Open champion, came up. A friend then suggested, jokingly, that perhaps someone named E Xi might emerge in future, to beat the record of the shortest name. And someone else remarked that E Xi would be an easy winner!

But that set me thinking about the word 'easy'. Life can be led mainly in two ways, if compelling extraneous factors are largely under control. By cultivating an easy-going persona, a happy-go-lucky mien, one can breeze through most phases of life without much ado. On the contrary, by being over cautious, mostly worried, over meticulous and even obsessed with orderl...