I found this story quite disturbing and that fact in itself make it quite real. I would like to add from a statement I made in class why I think survival are always intense and how does it reflects in this story.
To me, Bloodchild is just a reflection of the world where supportive and destructive forces are inevitable. I personally think there are causes that make different beings and things exist and somehow we need to find the way to live in harmony and keep conflicts minimal. To achieve that we should be aware of organic relationship between things and find the best way to work with it. Sometimes we’ll come to a certain consciousness that there are things we simply need to let go and focus on what’s matter to one self to be truly content.
I said in class that the story of Bloodchild indicated that survival is always intense no matter which perspective we look through, except those perspective that we don’t care to look at. We are constantly living upon suffering and death of others and ourselves just like how Terran need human as host of reproduction and human need other animals for food(not the case mentioned in this story). Forgivable or unforgivable, respect, compassion and gratitude toward things that allow us to survive are significant in cultivating the flow. The bond of family in the story is a kind of gratitude that tolerate both kinds of survivor. I obviously don’t want this scenario to happen to the earth or myself but if we investigate it carefully it’s quite similar to what’s already happening.
It’s probably impossible to free all beings from suffering but in the individual level there are choices we can make to become a better microcosm of the totality which is complex and transformative.
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