"...if we were aware of our anxiety, of our sense of isolation, of our sense of impotence, if we were aware of it, we could hardly go on functioning as the society expects from us to function. In fact, I would think, if even for one week we would stop all television, radio, games and conversation you would probably have a hundred thousand nervous breakdowns...or at least suddenly have people be very aware of all the things which are usually repressed."
-Erich Fromm ( youtube.com/watch?v=B930AKBr4E4 )
Erich Fromm said this in 1966 but it seems more relevant now (2020) than in the comparatively media-sparse 1960s. We have never been so immersed in distractions yet our community fabrics paradoxically have never been so torn. It is here that awareness can assist us in stepping from the unconscious into the conscious, from the individual to the communal, from destruction to renaturalization, from inequity to equity. Wellness follows awareness. Be aware and be well.