Around us is an exploratory existentialist piece that sort of wanders on the hardships of life. It is written to sort of represent the pov that life is sad and difficult and painful and hard. Often we don't see this in the media because people don't want to see something without a positive or at least neutral resolution. It is about family and relationships and goodbyes and how when these aren't handled well people can become toxic or unhealed or possibly even dangerous.