EvilGeoff
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ORIGINAL: veronicaofML i have not seen one posting........of anyone ever talking about real life. why is that? is real life too difficult of a concept? i really really worry that people live in a bubble world...... WARNING: LONG post follows! Why don't you see more people posting about doing chores? Because for most of us, chores are about as exciting and interesting as... oh... say... watching grass grow. In a word - Boring. It isn't a difficult concept at all. It's just not interesting enough to waste time on for most of us. Or it isn't pressing. We already know how to cook dinner, pay bills, do laundry, replace faucets, work our jobs. It's the fun stuff we more often need help with. BECAUSE we're so wrapped up in the "real life" we live. I'm 44 years old and I've only recently come to fully accept and embrace my "fantasies" as a vital part of who and what I am. I suppressed and fought against my "fantasies" for so long, and so hard, that I was on the verge of suicide. Oh yeah.. I walked in the harsh light of "reality" all my adult life and was killing myself to do it. Pretending to be someone I was not to please "my elders", to conform with society's expectations, to be something for my (now ex-) spouse that I simply was not. Screw "reality". Finding the BDSM community, that I was NOT alone in my "fantasies", discovering that it WAS possible to actually make my "fantasies" a reality (well, most of them anyway, the darker stuff I won't do. I _like_ not being in prison too much to go there! *evil grin*), to venturing forth and meeting people who's "reality" was _my_ "fantasy"... changed my life. It saved my life. Literally. You know what? Finding out that I _could_ incorporate that "physical s/m garbage" into my relationships, into my "reality" was the most breathtaking turning point in my life. I am a sadist. And I am an Owner. That IS reality. I'm a father, a lover, an ex-husband, an employee, a friend, an enemy, a geek, a Christian, a man. I'm all those things and more. But I'm a sadist at the core. I enjoy inflicting physical and emotional pain on others. That IS reality. Denying that I'm a sadist would be the "fantasy". Denying myself the pleasure that I derive from inflicting that pain would be to deny myself and my reality. I am not willing to do that any more. Those who come into my service will know pain. They will also know compassion, caring, friendship, tenderness, passion, perhaps even love. They will know the lash, the cane, the crop, the flogger, the needle, the knife, the flame, the spark. And they will know music, candle light, chili the way _I_ make it, breakfast on Sunday morning because I feel like cooking, get outta MY kitchen, slave! They will know housework, how I want my underwear folded, and how I want my shirts hung up in the closet. They'll serve me because it is what I desire and demand. And I? I will serve them because we have a relationship. A REAL relationship. Not a one-sided, use the slave up for all they are worth and dump them relationship. Not a velcro collar, here today, seeya bitch tomorrow relationship. Not a "I am God, you are a worthless piece of shit" relationship. Not a "I will fuck you silly until I am tired of you then hook up with the new "piece-o-the-week" " relationship. Those who choose to submit to me, to serve me have a real, living, breathing, "we are partners working together towards common goals and a shared future" relationship. It's based on a D/s dynamic and as our trust and confidence and knowledge of one another grow, the relationship grows toward Master/slave. That's my reality. And what I choose to share here on CM is based on my reality. The good, the bad, the indifferent, the beautiful, the ugly, the plain. My triumphs, my tumbles. They all come from my life as I live it. And if parts of _my_ reality seem to be fantasy to you, so be it. I don't expect you to live _MY_ life and reality, please extend me the same courtesy. I find the concept of _anyone_ staying in a relationship that is without love, without sex, without passion to be incomprehensible. It is totally alien to my way of thinking, feeling and living. I cannot fathom why anyone would stay in such a relationship. And yet I know others live such lives and find something about that life that meets their needs. I don't pretend to understand Goreans but I know people of passion, and character, and integrity, who strive to live their lives based on the principles and philosophies found in that vision. I don't understand our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters in leather. MY reality says Tab A goes into Slot B of someone not equipped with Tab A. And yet I know lots of people who's reality is very different. My reality doesn't change theirs, nor should it. I try to listen respectfully to others as they share _their_ realities. I don't expect them to live my lifestyle, to live in _my_ reality. But I would hope that we can learn from one another as we share of ourselves. And in the sharing, find common ground, and growth, diversity, and community. I love my reality now. It is so much richer, fuller, honest, vital than I could have ever imagined. The "reality" I used to live in is a distant nightmare, muted by time. God forbid I should ever have to go back to that. My apologies for the length of this, but I've vented my spleen and feel better now! *grin* Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate this day (and all who don't! Hopefully you can still enjoy time with friends and/or family and have someone or something in your life to be thankful for!) Yours In Kink, - Geoff Who is very real, as Em and others can attest.
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