Blog Post 16 “Watching Life in Reverse: Reborn Tropes & Conscience"

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"Watching Life in Reverse: Reborn Tropes & Conscience"
By Samuel

So today, I was watching these C-short dramas on YouTube.
You know, the ones with the whole “regression” or “reborn” trope.

There’s one scene that stayed with me.

A man, dying from terminal cancer. His life was ending, his body failing. The building around him catches fire. Smoke, chaos, everything burning.

His wife runs to him. She’s terrified, but love drives her forward.

He tells her: “Go. Run. Leave me.”

She hesitates. She doesn’t.

Love holds her back.

He’s dying. She could survive. But she stays.

And the moment hits me — he’s on the floor, unable to move. She wraps him in her arms, and she says:
“We’ve been married for 20 years. I hated you, but I love you enough to die with you.”

And now… my brain is spinning.

I get not having a chance to live. I get being trapped in a building on fire. But staying behind, choosing to die with someone who told you to run?

If I probably were in your situation, I would have just carried him out with all my strength and adrenaline — even with a female body.
After all, females keep saying strong and independent — you could have proven it.
If you couldn’t run out, the child will bear unimaginable pain with both parents gone.

Couldn’t you have just allowed me to think it was my time in peace and fade out like Oogway.
You could have allowed me to drop a cool line like: ‘You must survive your journey without me.’
But no — you had to ruin it. I couldn’t even die in style.

And then I thought — wait, we’ve got a child.
Have sense. Do you want the child to be an orphan?
How foolish and selfish could you get?

Just know I would be putting you on the front seat of heavenly judgement if there is an afterlife.
Our child is suffering because of your foolishness.
But at the same time, I love you for that and hate you.
Man… relationships are a hassle.

I think I’m done with these tropes for a while.
Let me go watch some ancient sects’ heavenly son destroy the nine realms while seeking death by being a cultivating trash who gets some divine encounter and suddenly gets all cocky.

— Chaos Samuel

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