Dumb or Dependent?
I was reading through my friend’s page today and I came across loki_n_nephtys. This quote;
“a good friend of O/ours told Daddy that the difference between a sub and a slave was that if a sub was told to go and make a 3 egg omelet, the sub would go to the kitchen and bring back a 3 egg omelet…but a slave would go to the kitchen and bring back the eggs and ask ‘which 3?’”
And I shot water out my nose. Not just because it’s funny, though it is, but because I can easily see myself doing exactly that.
Now the author of that post sees that quote as a dig, an insinuation that a slave is not intelligent enough to pick out 3 eggs. I can certainly see where she’d come to that conclusion. In fact, I probably would have been on the same page if I haven’t done something extremely similar.
A few months ago, Master and I had several days alone. (I did make an attempt to go back and find it in the archives but I can’t. It may have been longer ago than I recall.) I just remember it being days and days of hard beatings, of humiliation, of many many hours in the closet. That type of continuous intensity wears you down. The *only* thing that I was doing without asking was breathing. And the only things I was asking for were basic needs.
During times like that Master gets super strict. He’s demanding(more so than usual). He’s harsh, critical. Every movement I make is met with questions. Interrogation type questions. His body towering over me, intimidating me with His size. “What are you doing? Did I say you could move? Did you ASK ME if you could move! Get back NOW.” He’s quick to snap out a crop if I don’t obey fast enough, or respond appropriately.
The result of that type of interaction is that I become extremely afraid to do *anything* that might be met with any sort of disapproval. I don’t move. He poses me where He wants me and I stay there, I don’t twitch. I don’t talk unless He’s talked to me first and even at that, He’s not asking me anything that requires more than a “yes Sir” response. I don’t dawdle, I don’t argue, I don’t hesitate. I don’t do anything.
I’m His toy. I’m there to fuck and suck, to be played with if He wants to and otherwise, to sit where He placed me, exactly as He placed me and shut the fuck up. That’s the purpose of being so harsh, getting me into that mindset. The mindspace where I cease to exist.
At one point, He’d told me to go make Him some chicken noodle soup for lunch. Making soup is typically a simple service. I’m not making it from scratch, it’s Campbell’s canned soup. I remember going into the kitchen, opening the cupboard and taking the can out. And then… freezing.
Just standing there, holding the can of chicken noodle soup and not knowing what my next step should be. I was so worried about somehow doing this wrong, of displeasing Him that I seized. I was stuck on the decisions I needed to make about this soup. What pan do I use? Maybe He didn’t want it in a pan, maybe He wanted it cooked in the microwave. But the microwave seemed the “lazy” way to do it and I had to put all of my effort into pleasing Him. But the stove would take longer and maybe He wanted speed over effort. If I put it on the stove, I’ll have time to make a sandwich for Him while it cooks. But He didn’t ask for a sandwich, maybe He doesn’t want a sandwich. He always has a sandwich with soup, I should know that He wants a sandwich. What kind of sandwich? But if He doesn’t want a sandwich and I’m in here wasting time making one, He’s going to be pissed because He didn’t tell me to make one. All He asked for was the soup. But how do I cook the soup?
I finally went back out to Him. And asked. And He didn’t seem at all surprised that I was asking for directions, down to what bowl He wanted the soup served in. When I ask, even about the tiniest details, I’m safe. I’m not in trouble for ‘free thinking’ and He knows it will get done exactly how He wants it done.
Some Masters pick their slave’s clothing for them. I can easily imagine that becoming so ingrained in a slave’s thinking that if the Master forgot to get her clothes out and left for work, the slave would stand at the closet door, butt naked, and not know what to do. It’s not a testament to her intelligence, but to her obedience, to her dependency on His decisions.
The majority of the time, I maintain enough decision making capabilities to get through a day. I have to hold on to that for now. But I won’t always and I can easily see myself needing explicit directions, even down to what 3 eggs to use for His omelet.
Perhaps it’s a trade off He’s making. If He wants to have me objectified enough, or obedient enough, that I quietly and patiently sit in a box until He wants me for something, then micro-managing me is going to be a necessity. It is a lot of work on His part and it takes a lot of effort, but the pay off He’ll get in creating His dream fucktoy will be worthwhile.
I don’t know if it can be so simple as to pick and choose what I can be decisive on. I’m pretty sure it’s going to have to be across the board. We’re to the point now where I cannot, on my own, decide what to cook. If He just tells me He’s hungry and to go find Him something, I can’t just go pick whatever. I have to list what we have so He can pick Himself. Then I have to know how much of it He wants. And He can’t just say soup or a sandwich. He has to tell me what kind of soup, what kind of sandwich and how many. I can, mostly, manage to fix it on my own though.
That’s my take on that. Thank you loki_n_nephtys for the inspiration. :-)
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