Call to Cultivate

Ours is the age of anxiety. We were sold a vision of our hyper-technological era as one that would see our biggest problems solved and our greatest ailments treated. But despite the promise of cancer cures and flying cars, it is our cortisol levels that have soared. We are drained by our devices, bewildered by social-media fights, and battle guilt while scrolling through texts from our parent group over how just a single fast-food cheeseburger can break a child’s health for a lifetime. In the age of “fluid modernity,” everything changes all the time. Marriages collapse; families break apart; parents and kids whir through life like bees in a hive. We occupy 5, 10, 15 places of residence before we start talking about “settling down,” even as we change jobs on a rotational basis. Against this backdrop of constant stress and change, small wonder that so many pilgrims of hyper-modernity turn to medication, therapy, and “positive thinking” for aid.But there is hope for frazzled people like u