Emergence 3.0
A Novel – In One Page Per Day
Day 141, Monday
May 21st, 2018
Chapter One: Family
The care of a loving family is like the wet, clinging mesh of a spider’s
web. Humans are trapped in it, suspended, enwrapped. The majority of people who
have ever lived, never lived a day apart from these sticky-bonds.
Familial obligations are invisible. We are bound by them through our
emotions; by fear and love, hate, pride, anger, hope, jealousy, the feelings that
bind us to our parents and our siblings, to our clans like the ligaments that
join bones to muscles.
We are conditioned by rituals; by the stories we tell, the drums we
play, by music, and language, by the seasons we live, and the hours of the day.
We are raised in the patterns that play themselves out, in small cycles and in great.
Everything we are comes from the family, everything we do redounds to
the family name,the name of our clan, our tribe, our village, our state.
Our identities are completely enmeshed with the identity of the group we
are raised in. Only the most profound betrayal can break the patterns we are
raised to live by, and even then, those who break free from their familial
identity, or through no choice of their own are cast out from it, they leave
and recreate the same structures in places with new people.
The individual can be raised up, lifted high, made strong by their
family and tribe.
They can also be shunted, marginalized, and cast aside.
Families have a tendency to cannibalize their strength, in times of
great need they will go so far as to eat their own, or set up the strongest and
most beautiful as holy victims for the gods they worship.
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