Love the atmospheric instrumentation in this song, Beth, plus the effects you use on your vocals work really well. The use of erhu and guzheng was excellent. I've used both on some tracks, but I always wish I could literally tell the erhu player to vary things a bit. In this song the erhu works brilliantly without any orders given! laugh
What's to be our fate? I'm the worst person to ask as I'm an optessimist: I derive a very positive view of humanity's later future via a very pessimistic view of out present in which nonconsciousness aka ignorance rules in tandem with literal insanity. Just after I moved to this retirement flat in the Year of My SNAFU Catch 2022 I had a dream in which Asman was showing me down the road, which is a few minutes walk from the beach, and he said to me, "All of this will be gone by (or 'in') 2028." I'd never heard the name Asman before and so I looked it up and he's the Sky God (Logos) in Zoroastrianism. As this area is a major flood zone such could easily happen, and it did in 1953 due to "a huge storm surge which hit Holland, Belgium, England and Scotland. A total of 2,551 people died." A repeat of that is very likely, but that's actually a best case scenario re "All of this will be gone by 2028."

Some favourite Waoist Adages:
#1: Play on the Way.
#13: Ask not for whom the flower blooms, it blooms for you.
#58: Bring consciousness to it.
#63: On the road to effortlessness, effort must be made.
#92: Be Love Now, the rest will come on its own.