My name is Pinky and I am a silkworm. I have a silkworm friend who accompanies me. His name is Bluey. We live in a shoebox comfortably and peacefully. My human friend Mulan takes care of us very gently.  She used to feed us two Mulberry leaves each meal. Now that we grew bigger, she feeds us four Mulberry leaves per meal and three meals a day.

       Sometimes Mulan might work on something interesting like a computer language called “Scratch”. She was so focused that she forgot to feed us by accident. In that case we were hungry but Mulan’s mom Helen will remind Mulan to feed us.

      A life of mine is very happy because we won’t get destroyed. Mulan’s family will not take my silk and we will finish our life cycle. I know some day I will become a moth and lay eggs. That is my destiny. A lot of my kind will get destroyed by humans when we are in the pupa stage. They took our silk so my friends could not finish their life cycle into a moth. Our silk gave fiber for humans to use to make beautiful clothes. Sometimes I am angry since our kind is destroyed cruelly. However, we silkworm has lost the ability to live by ourselves. We are too picky and we only eat Mulberry leaves. Without humans’ help, we cannot survive by ourselves. When we cannot be independent from human, what else can we expect from human?

Sigh……