Shylahgirl -> To give and recive a collar (1/22/2007 10:36:24 AM)
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This is more of a topic of disscussion then a question. In this post I am stating my own experinces and oppinions. They might not be the same as yours and I know that. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have been on this and other BDSM sights for a while now and have noticed something that both amuses and bothers me. On peoples profiles they say that they are looking for a master/mistress. I look at their page a week later and they say they are "collard"... then they go into how they met their master/mistress three days ago. It's amusing because they are all excited about it and don't really understand what they are doing. Or they might be to new to know what the tearm "collard" really means. It bothers me because it took me 7 months after becoming my Master's 24/7 to earn my permanent collar. I was not allowed to say I was collard for that time, I could say I was owned or in training, but not collard. I also see stuff like this in the local BDSM community. Someone shows up, new, to a function and the next week they've "collard" their boyfriend or girlfriend. Then in a week or so it's all over, including the prevous relationship. For me a collar is a symbol of a commitment that can't be broken because the master/mistress says, "I'm board with you" or "I don't feel like having a submissive anymore." And for a collar to be given so lightly makes it seem insignificant to people who are watching. And for me, it seems that when I say that I'm collard it's not taken as seriously by others as it should be. More then half the people I that I tell I'm collard assume that I received my collar in the first few days of my service to my Master, Arawn. When infact it took 7 months of constant training to earn the right to wear his permanent collar. It took about 3 weeks before he'd allow me to wear a leather collar to events. As a symbol that I was in training to him. His permanent collar is a stiff silver necklace with a silver pendent of a girl kneeling, bent over, with her hands behind her back. I never take it off, except to clean it. I dislike it when I see that people take the symbol of the collar so lightly. To me it signifies a real lasting commitment that nether the Master/Mistress or submissive/slave should take lightly or break lightly. Some would compeer a collar to a wedding ring, but in my experience the meaning behind the collar goes much deeper then that. A marriage can be broken, and they often are. When a submissive/slave receives their master/mistresses collar a part of them is with the master/mistress for ever, even if the people do eventually go in their sepret paths. When a master/mistress collars their submissive/slave they are saying, "I am committing my time, love, and protection to you. I will protect you, care for you, and cherish you. I trust you beyond all others. I trust you in my home and with my heart. I am honored by your service to me." By excepting a collar the submissive/slave is saying, "I am willingly giving you my heart, freedom, respect, loyalty, and service. I am trusting you to be fare and loving in discipline and all other things. I trust you beyond all others. I trust you to beat me, fuck with my mind, bring me to the edge of my sanity and maybe push me a little past it. I trust you to know my fears and phobias and to let you play with them. I trust you enough to know that no matter what I will still be whole at the end of the day." None of those things should be earned or given in two days or a week. Even a Master/Mistress cannot expect all that trust to just be given, it all needs to be earned over a long period of time. I would not have excepted my masters collar if I did not trust him with my life. Shylah
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