puella
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I would agree with so much of what has been said here.. I feel that strength, and being a capable person, is vital not just to a BDSM relationship, but to ANY adult relationship. It's very important to be able to function as a responsible, well adjusted, capable person, (all on your own, if need be) if you plan on being any kind of a success as an adult human being. That is not what I was picking at in the original post. What is irksome, is that for some reason, there is this stigma attached to actual submission to another person. As if by not being a mouthy, ornery, contrary, power-struggling, know-it-all whilst simultaneously saying you are whole heartedly submitting to another person, that makes you, by default, (the awful word) a door mat. I am strong enough in my conviction, my love, my devotion and my intelligence to not need to jerk the man I made the CHOICE to submit to around with a bunch of demands and bitching. It is not the kind of person I want to be. I have worked my butt off in the past 10 years or so to evolve into a better person, and as a consequence, I feel I have developed traits which may make me a better submissive than I was as the selfish, demanding, persnickety smart-ass back then.. those qualities (being, compassion, respect for others, respect for difference, a genuine desire to bring light instead of darkness when at all possible, the choice to use my energy as a person to help people as much as I can instead of investing all my energy into selfishness) do not weaken me. Do those qualities devolve my intelligence? Do they counter-mind my ability to function, quite highly, as an accomplished person? Do they make me a dependent (or perhaps even worse, co-dependant)? Do they negate the innate strength I have always had as a person? Do they make me less, make me weak?? My answer is no.. I see no reason why they should, or why they have to... In fact it's those very qualities which enable me to be a stronger person and a more consciously, as well as intrinsically involved submissive. When I was owned, I was in a constant state of reaffirmation of the begging of my collar, largely due to the sensitivity those qualities ignite in one's self. I was, on every level, in every moment acting upon my decision( my final solitary decision) to submit to him, to submit to not just the choice, but to the absolute certainty that my life, and position in that life with him was right. To jockey about in power struggles and squabbles shows nothing more to me than a person who is not strong enough to commit to their Dominant.. and a person who is not strong enough to trust their own decision (not to mention their Dominant). It suggests a person too weak to trust in the beauty of submission because of the vulnerability, NOT the weakness, it reveals. There is a real vulnerability in surrender, that is what brings about the beauty, that openness... but if you are strong, you can go there.. because you know, no matter what, the person you (and again, not to mention your Dominant!) are is strong enough to handle it, and what ever may come from it. And the person you are is strong enough to know that that risk is the only way to bring about what is so vital to you as a person and as one half of a dynamic called the D/s or M/s relationship. And brings you strength, as one who serves, vulnerably, honestly, and intrinsically... with the greatest of strengths.. the strength of love.
< Message edited by puella -- 4/20/2006 4:31:26 PM >
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