CaringandReal -> RE: Flaws (8/25/2009 4:04:25 PM)
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ORIGINAL: porcelaine ... if i attach myself to a particular outcome at some point i'm going to be disappointed and depending on the circumstances truly disheartened. i have gone through both and learned through much pain and more tears than i can count that i simply cannot live in that manner. it is counterproductive to me as a person, self-destructive on many levels, and very harmful to the slave mindset and m/s dynamic. it places undue pressure on everyone to perform as stated/expected or whatever notion we've conjured in our head. i made peace with the fact that life offers no guarantee. when i released this and simply allowed things to unfold as they should and chose to live in the moment, not moments ahead, i found joy and peaceful tranquility. Submission as detachment? Perhaps. It's certainly an appropriate stance to assume toward another's decisions once you are a slave and possibly also a best practice with the "small things" when you're in the anxiety-provoking stage of considering/being considered. The mathematics of detachment are accurate: someone without expectations, be they great or small, is not crushed when they are not met. But when it comes to the ultimate prize I believe it best when attitude shifts as far toward the poetic extreme as you can go and you "consume yourself like burning chaff" in the fevor of your passion for the dark lord of your soul and hold nothing in reserve even if he does not assure you of even the smallest corner in his domain. Yes, you risk a great deal by doing that, pretty much everything in fact, and the fall is so far down. And when you're smashed and broken on the rocks of despair, it may very well be years (if at all) before you are strong enough to pick yourself up and begin even a small limping walk toward something or someone else. Well, it's what I do anyway. It hasn't killed me yet! (Although it has come close once or twice. :/) And when a very practical part of me, the part that loves to practice detachment, tells me exactly how stupid I'm being, I just start singing "The Lady with a Fan" (G. Dead, not C. Calloway) at the top of my mental lungs to drown her out. ;)
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