Texy
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To the OP. I'm an artist. When I paint, I have a particular vision in my head of what I want to achieve on a canvas, an end goal or picture. As I paint, something takes over and to be honest, sometimes I only achieve 60% of that first vision..but that doesn't mean the end result is crap. I learned long ago that there is someone that loves me and everything I do artistically and otherwise. And that person would tell me, "honeychild, you know I loves you, just the way you are." So I paint for her, every stroke, doodle, line, dot. I paint for her, I paint for the one that loves me and a result of that is that whether anyone else loves it or not, I have expressed what was inside of me and I'm pleased. And believe it not, I do manage to sell a few paintings with that attitude. Being new to the lifestyle, at first I didn't know what was bs or not. I read everything I could, but still had no concept of what was fantasy and what was real life. I did everything wrong at first...and finally decided to take the bull by the horns so to speak. This was my journey and I wanted to take the steps to ensure I would be on the right track. The only thing that helped me with that was meeting people in real time at a munch, talking to them, asking about their first experiences and listening. I will say, in real time I can tell when people being honest with me about their experiences. Do I know their motives? I can tell in real time, yes about 90% of the time. There are certain indicators, and I know them from my vanilla experiences. I found some people I get on with, and this month joined a group in Dallas that I am comfortable with and enjoy and trust. So once a month, it's a 7 hour drive or an hour plane flight, but nothing beats real experience for me. Today, I do know more about what I want and what I don't want. I do want someone I click with, because I am realizing that I can't serve everyone and just anyone won't fulfill that desire for serving with happiness. So in my experience there are certain factors that cut to the chase pretty quickly: 1) If I hear "back on the chain gang" by the pretenders or "No Scrub" by tlc when I'm talking to a Dom/me, I am not the sub for them. (Yes, this actually happens for me and at my last much I met a Mistress where I heard "ring of fire" playing in my head. I ran btw ;-) ) 2) If they ask me to get a webcam without offering for me to first look at their webcam, I am not the sub for them. 3) If I say I'm not ready to send person info yet because I'm uncomfortable and they give me a hard time in any way, I am not the sub for them. 4) If they do not laugh or smile during inital contact or shortly thereafter, I am not the sub for them. Yes, I want someone with a sense of humor and enjoys living life. 5) If they want to own me or meet in person after a few emails, I am not the sub for them. I do tell them if they want to meet me where I go for munches. 6) If they do not talk about something besides bdsm in those first getting to know you emails, I am not the sub for them. 7) If they want to hear my fantasies in the first few emails, I am not the sub for them. 8) If given something to do, and I agree, I sometimes go back and ask for it again, because well, I say it's the artist side of me but truthfully I'm abit dingy at times in real life and can get distracted by whatever cool is going on, and I also want to know how they react. Dom/me test, especially in real life, and quite frankly I test as well. To your question, how do I stay the course? By daily contact with real people that live this lifestyle daily. The boring as well as the fantasy intertwined into what is called real life. I'm still newish, still make mistakes, take things to heart a bit too much sometimes, but I try not to sweat it as much today. I hope I do not ever settle for anything less than what my heart desires which is someone I can serve happily, completely, totally. And for me, that means there has to be a connection with that person. I don't have the expectation anymore that it will happen online, as I've said, real time was a big eye opener for me. If it does, that's cool, but I don't expect it today. Thanks for posting! gayle
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