BitaTruble -> RE: What submission isn't (1/26/2006 12:06:30 PM)
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They dont understand how much strength is takes to be a slave. It took more backbone for me to submit then it did for me to do most anything else. I think there are going to be a lot of people that don't understand why it can be such a struggle, and why we deem it as 'strength' to submit. The formative years are spent being told to be good, behave, do what we're told yadda, yadda. There comes a point, generally preteen to teen, where we begin to rebel against all that's been comfortable and familiar. We're ready to break out of the boundaries which have been set for us to discover how far we can go. We are grown, we're adults. We're free to be who and what we are ... then we say, ok.. who am I? hehe Well, the problem of course is that we're thrown, full grown into adulthood with zero in the way of life experience as adults to 'be' adults. So we explore and if we're lucky, we finally figure out that submission is what we must do to live to our full potential. So, in a sense, it's a struggle again, because everything we learned during those formative years, against which we spent so much time rebelling, have come full circle and, internally, it seems as if progress has been lost by allowing boundaries set by someone else to come back into our lives. The struggle tends to dissipate as we come to accept that it's not progress which has been lost, but that we have moved forward in life, as we should, and that we have grown into what we needed to be. Once that happens, submission is no longer a struggle, just a way of life. Being a slave does not take strength, although it certainly may take fortitude, when we are comfortable in our own skin and embrace who we are. The icing, of course, is when we find there are others out there who also embrace who we are and who's own experiences have brought them to the point where they are a Master to our slavery. mmm.. delicious the way some flavors mix so well together. In the end, don't sweat the small stuff. If someone doesn't understand what it has taken for you to get to where you are, be grateful that you understand it, because there are plenty out there who are still struggling. Celeste
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