On the long and boring drive to retrieve my children from Granny’s house today I gave lots of thought to the comments given to my expectation/desire dilemma of the past week. I cannot reply to each comment individually, but many of you were saying much the same thing so I think I can reply appropriately to each message in this post.
First, I seriously considered the depression comments. Believe me when I say that I do not see the need for medication, or therapy, as a weakness or as anything to be ashamed of so I’d not dismiss the possibility of depression for those reasons. However, I have come to the conclusion that I am not suffering from any sort of clinical depression, at least not of the variety that might warrant treatment.
I think it *is* a depressing situation, and it’s certainly not anything that causes me happy-happy-joy-joy feelings. But in my every day doings, and how I cope each day, I’m quite content and happy, pleasant and capable. I do not exhibit other signs of depression. My “problem” is completely limited to that one specific thing and has not (yet) affected other areas. Having said that, I think it may have the potential to become something that bleeds over into other areas, therefore, due to your comments, it is something Master and I will keep a watchful eye on.
The next common suggestion was communication. What can I say about this. It’s not anything I can argue with as being “bad” advice. It’s kinda like snatching a marothon runner up at the finish line and advising them to “breathe! You just gotta breathe!”. Totally inarguable as something vital – yet also really, really obvious and inane and a tad insulting.
I really do hate to say that I was insulted by advice that I’m sure was not meant to be insulting, it’s just that I had hoped that I’d put forth the impression that I was able to think of breathing on my own without being told to, you know?
Here’s another thing about communication. There can come a time when communication becomes excessive to the point of being a hindrance rather than an aid. There was a time when I needed, and Master required, that I spill every thought, where I was open and honest and transparent, where He needed to know me in order to control me. We’re just not there anymore. He knows me, and He knows enough about me, that my continued blatherings are as interesting as Seinfeld reruns.
I know that I no longer need to repeat old information to Him like a broken record, just as well as I know that He needs to hear the new information because He’s not a mind reader. I gave up the “well if you loved me enough, you’d know what was wrong!” game a long time ago.
Wants vs. Needs was next. Now there’s an endless debate, eh? Master decided on my needs long ago. I have four basic needs – air, food, water, shelter. Everything else is a want. I may think my want is a need because I long for it with every cell in my body, but that longing does not magically transform it into a need. There may be wants that make me a better person, a person easier to live with or better able to serve, but again, that only gets to be a need if Master *needs* me to be that person. He can, and does, change what He *needs* from me on a daily basis, thereby adjusting the catering to my *wants*.
Whether or not He comes to the conclusion that I *need* something else, or something more, from Him in order to maintain my purpose in His life remains to be seen. I’m not approaching this problem of mine from the postion that He *needs* to fix it. Because it wasn’t a problem that HE identified (which would have acknowledged that it’s a problem for *Him*) my approach, and my question to you all here was what can *I* do, or what have you all done, to cope with this.
Expectations and Disappointment. Align my desires with His, lose the expectations, and voila! no more disappointment. Sage advice really, if that’s what I was trying to do. I guess I wasn’t able to clarify that that’s what I had already done, which, in essence, is the “new” problem.
Oh I admit this was a huge issue for me once upon a time. I had my expectations, mostly unrealistic I might add. I came into this with some hugely fantastical ideas of what it should be like, of how He would act and how I would act and how life would be. And I was sorely disappointed when reality kicked my ass. It was a job to pull my head out of the clouds and align myself with Him. It was a job to not be as annoying as a chihauhau on crack, bouncing and yapping around His ankles, going “play with me! play with me! PLAY WITH ME! yap yap yap!” It was a job to learn to not be devastated when play was put aside in favor of sleep, food and paychecks.
But I did it, see. I stopped expecting and I stopped being disappointed. I rolled with the punches (pun optional). If whatever happened, then – whatever happened happened. Or didn’t happen. I did my stuff, my service stuff as He wanted, without constantly thinking about what I would get out of it or when I would “get paid”, accepting, finally, that I’m not going to get paid, it’s not about what *I* get out of it, and either way, I still have to do what I do. His expectations didn’t change, mine had to.
There’s no build up of resentment. There may have been early on but that proved pretty quickly to be a useless waste of energy.
So when I read the comments advising me to align my desires and drop my expectations all I could think was I did! I have. Mission accomplished. And as a result of doing that – now I have this. This.. apathy… and what do I do about *that*.
Walk away. Leave. Do it or don’t do it (but ‘shut the fuck about it’ seemed to be the rest of the message). I despise this as advice. Seriously. Not everyone is looking for a way out, nor should giving up be encouraged so readily. There are instances where “get out” is appropriate immediate advice, but I am not one of them nor do I think I’ve ever given the impression that I need that. And honestly, how discouraging is it to hear that the only “fix” for your situation is to abandon it? Or that it’s not okay to whine about it (if I am whining and I’m not decided that I am yet) without someone dooming a relationship to failure. Besides, unless you’ve only just started reading me today, you should already know this – leaving is not an option. Period.
I’m more than willing to have the whole “can I or can’t I leave” discussion if anyone is interested, but for now let’s just scratch that off as an option. So since it’s not an option, what I’d really like to do is find a way to deal with this *within* the confines of the relationship.
Which leads me to “harden the fuck up and deal”. That’s really not bad advice. That’s also what I’ve been doing for months. I’m ‘dealing’. I’ll continue to ‘deal’ because, thus far, there is nothing more I CAN do. I thought I could talk about it and maybe find something more attractive than “harden the fuck up and deal”, something more pleasant – but maybe there isn’t anything.
I am still deeply considering the accepting of the acceptance, which ties neatly into being Master’s puppet. There is truth in that if He wanted me to return to that eager, greedy, yapping painslut who begged for it, He knows how to create that again, just as He knows how to shut it(me) off. Perhaps He needs to do His own experiments with me, creating and destroying multiple times in multiple ways before He can decide which of me better suits His needs. Maybe I suit Him now, as is, and indefinitely shelving what I once was will continue on. Maybe beating me while I hang there, impassive and detached, excites Him. Beating me until the pain trumps the apathy; a moment of triumph not quite equalled when I’m otherwise so willing.
If He were here, He’d pop me in the mouth and tell me to stop fucking analyzing everything to death.
Now there’s some sound advice that I should take.
G’night
~cunt
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