The best thing I've read from you. You tapped into something bigger, something divine - the spirit of Eros, perhaps. This captures so much of what has been coming up for me from reading Sharon Blackie, Amitav Ghosh, Audre Lorde and Ecopsychology writers like Andy Fischer.

On a biological level, we could say that Eros is the activation of the parasympathetic nervous system - bringing feelings of love, calm and expansion. While Thanatos is the fight/flight/freeze activation of the sympathetic nervous system. So, on a biological level, it sounds so simple - everyone needs to meditate, to touch and hug, to dance, sing, and learn to step back from their emotions. Sadly we have been thrust into a world where our sympathetic nervous systems are constantly bombarded with anxiety.

Did you notice that when you're typing or sitting at your laptop, you hold your breath or breathe in a very shallow way? How often do you breathe deeply into your belly? How often do you stop, focus on just one thing, look into the eyes of a loved one, or allow yourself to get lost in really good music?

We must be part of what we seek to bring into the world. And Umair, you often write from an anxiety-provoking, nervous-system attacking place because your own anxiety and anger is spilling over so much that you want everyone else to feel it. It's important to wake people up, but also we have to ask ourselves what effect our work is really having. I'm doing the same with my writing, now. Are we just activating people's nervous systems more, making them feel that the Mad Max world is coming? Are we writing in a way that evokes Eros? :)