I think this just might be a rambly-type post. I’m in a rambly-type mood.
These boxes are multiplying on me. Honest. I put one box down, leave the room, come back and there sits three. I get one room completely unpacked and clean and *done*, walk into another previously finished room and it’s a disaster. I think I have The Cat in the Hat and his Thing One and Thing Two running behind my back. On crack no less. But the basement, oh my.
The basement is Master’s Place. It’s His cave. It’s sacred. Manly. Full of tools and power cords. And Master’s a bit anal (that’s being nice) about His “stuff”. He has a million little crates and bins and tool boxes, all neatly stacked and labeled, filled with all different types of screws and nuts and bolts and things of that nature. Who knew there were *types*?? He can spend hours down there happily organizing and moving and re-stacking, call me down and say “look what I did baby!” and I stare for awhile trying to see something different.
I’m not an organized person. I like junk drawers. I like baskets to put “stuff” in. All manners of stuff. All mixed up.
If I ask Master where something is in the basement, He will give me very precise directions; “In the black tool box sitting on the red metal shelf, third drawer from the bottom on the left hand side, right next to the yellow handled screwdriver.”
If He asks me where something in the house is, I hem and haw and wander around poking in baskets, saying things like “I JUST saw that the other day.”
Most of the time we balance each other out pretty well I think. He’s taught me the value of being organized and I am better at it and I’ve shown Him how to relax, that the world will not end if something is out of place. Other times we can get on each others nerves about it. When He’s ranting and raving because something has been misplaced and I’m rolling my eyes and affectionately calling Him Mr. Anus.
It’s a term of endearment. And that’s my story.
Sunday afternoon/evening, while the entire house was overflowing with boxes, while I was stressing because I couldn’t find the box that had the tampons in it, while I was frantically trying to clear enough floor space to set up a bed so we could sleep somewhere comfortable, Master was in the basement. Happy as a clam, stacking and sorting, clearing pathways to His tools. And when He called me down there a short time later, it really was shocking. He’d effectively cleared the majority of the floor. I’d barely managed to make a path and He’d all but finished the basement.
So all this week I’ve been finishing up the house and taking stuff into the basement. Lots of stuff. Stuff that seems to have no other place to go. Lots and lots… and lots… of stuff. The basement looks as bad, if not worse, than it did Sunday morning. Now I could spend the day down there tomorrow trying to minimize the damage.
OR… I could leave it and maybe He’ll tie me to a rafter and whoop on me while He re-organizes.
God knows I am needing a whooping. Bad!
The other day, the day after the Big Blow Up, Master made a comment to me, I can’t recall the exact words but it was something the effect of accepting responsibility for letting things slide. I’ve kind of been going over that in my head. Being a Master, agreeing to take ownership of a slave is not something to be entered into lightly. It’s work. And when things aren’t right, if a Master claims to be in charge, who else can be blamed?
Obviously a slave can be doing her part in being wrong, but even at that a slave is only as wrong as her Master lets her be.
A parent is ultimately responsible for how a child is raised, a teacher is responsible for how a student is taught, and a Master is responsible for His slave.
Does that let me off the hook of responsibility? Can I smugly say that what goes wrong from here on out is out of my hands? Am I magically absolved of guilt?
I could actually, if and only if, I do MY part to perfection. And nobody is perfect. Not me, not Master. Nobody. But it does in fact lighten my load a bit.
If a slave breaks a rule then she is responsible for that. That’s her failure. But then let’s say the Master overlooks it. Then I think that turns it into His failure.
Bear with me here, I’m laying it out as I think. It’s bound to not make any sense. :-)
I know that I do that, I think that. I accept the guilt that comes along with having broken a rule, I accept that I failed, I accept that I have earned myself a punishment. UNLESS Master lets it slide. Then I no longer see where I failed, I can only see where He failed. And once I begin to suspect this bit of weakness (because failure is indicative of a weakness), things begin to unravel.
It’s not that I *want* to be punished. I want to know that I’m worth correcting.
If I’m not worth correcting, then I’m also not worth rewarding.
If I’m not worth rewarding, I begin to lose motivation to be pleasing.
If I’m not pleasing Him, I’m a worthless slave.
If I’m a worthless slave and I’m miserable in a vanilla setting, then I fit in nowhere.
Worthless, nothing, nowhere. All from one bit of leniency on Master’s part.
Now before everyone thinks I’m running around breaking rules on purpose, I’m not. But as I said, I’m *not* perfect, I do mess up. And before you think it’s a ploy to get my masochistic ass spanked, Master’s punishments tend to run the lines of internet banning, extra chores, etc. Things I don’t like. Yet, I still need to suffer the consequences, you know?
I have no idea what that has to do with anything.
I keep coming back to the high-maintenance comment. I am. I think I am. Master’s says I’m not but then He also tells me I’m beautiful soooooooo…:P
Years and years ago I was involved in a lesbian relationship. I loved this girl. This was before I even knew what bdsm was and while there was some power shift between us (she was the stronger willed of the two of us and naturally took charge) it wasn’t a power exchange relationship. I was young, 16 when we met, 18 when we split. We were very close friends as well as lovers.
When we broke up it wasn’t because I didn’t love her anymore. Nor was it because I didn’t want to be her friend anymore. Not because I wasn’t attracted to her (I was, very much so. She was gorgeous and soft, curvy, large-breasted. Her skin was so smooth. She had the sweetest pussy, like licking sugar) but because she was comfortable with her sexuality and I wasn’t. She had no qualms about holding hands in public, kissing, telling family and friends about us. And I was not.
This was 18 years ago. Discrimination against homosexuals is bad now.. and was much worse then. I recognized that I could not give her what she needed. I couldn’t be open. I loved her though.
Love doesn’t solve everything. Love doesn’t fix everything. Sometimes, love is the reason things have to end.
That’s where I was last week. I love Master but I didn’t feel like I could give Him what He needed. If what He needs is a vanilla “break”, I can’t do that. I’d be a miserable, horrible person and who wants to live with that? Why would I want to do that to Him?
If He doesn’t want what I have to offer, why would He keep me around anyway?
I know I’m high-maintenance but I guess I’m not seeing how that particular incident is evidence of it. There are certain things that I *need* in order to live happily. Being a slave is one of them. And I wasted too many years of this short life denying that already.. I won’t go there again. And I refuse to make anyone else unhappy in the process.
Boy, what a ramble this is turning into.
Maybe people who read this think Master and I have a traditional relationship with a little D/s thrown in on the side. I don’t know if I’ve ever given that impression, certainly didn’t mean to… but that’s NOT what we are. We started as Master and slave, we met as Master and slave, our relationship revolves around Master and slave.
He has to do His part and I have to do mine and that is that. This weekend He’s said that He’ll be giving me a new task list, that the rules will be adjusted for this new situation. Tomorrow I have to carve the “owned slave” into my tits again. It’s faded, not completely gone, I don’t think it ever will be, but faded is just not good.
It’s a bad omen.
Time to refresh. :)
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