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RE: Constant Total Amazement... - 9/15/2008 6:39:14 PM

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Maybe, LH, someone needs to "respark" you. It is like the first kiss. It can evolve into more, but never gets dull, if it is constantly challenged and polished.

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Awww, I am not meaning to be a downer!! Otter, I am really glad for you, I remember when things were shiny new and exciting!! Feel free to share, I AM enjoying it---and honestly, I cannot imagine my life without kink. I would sooner give up......CHEESE!!!

(Well maybe not ALL cheese.... maybe just the hard cheeses, like caciocavallo. But you get what I mean!)

BTW, I will bring the crackers......LOL

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RE: Constant Total Amazement... - 9/15/2008 6:42:15 PM

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Otter -

Just make sure that you keep things fun and new. If they get dull or boring, change it up!

We are swingers, so we look at things differently. We meet new people, so there is always the "new" element, as well as i treat Toad as tho He is the best thing in my life. Like i worship Him. This keeps Him happy. So, when things get same -o - try something new! :)

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RE: Constant Total Amazement... - 9/15/2008 8:49:36 PM

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Woke up this morning and the street was full of cars
All bright and shiny like they'd just arrived from Mars
And as I stumbled through last night's drunken debris
The paperboy shouted the headlines in the street:
"Another war, and now the dollar's looking weak -
and tell me have you heard about the latest freak?
We're all just numbers and our names are obsolete
Why do I feel bitter when I should be feeling sweet?

Hello? Hello? Turn your radio on!
Is there anybody out there?
Please help me sing my song...
You know, life is a strange thing -
just when you think you've learned how to use it,
it's gone.

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RE: Constant Total Amazement... - 9/15/2008 9:54:38 PM

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Hi Otter - I'm so happy for you, and hope you continue to enjoy the ride!

For me, my journey towards awareness started years ago, but I fought it...and I can still remember the day I finally gave in. The feelings were incredible, a special head space that I'll never forget. I still have quite a ways to go, but I'm enjoying the rewards (and the struggles!) along the path. This year I decided that allowing myself to explore my innate sexuality was a part of the ride that I wasn't willing to put off any longer... and what a roller coaster it has been! And like Otter, I'm still doing my little 'giggles and wiggles' throughout the day, thinking about things that have happened and things that are still to come.

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RE: Constant Total Amazement... - 9/16/2008 1:06:23 AM

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"My father says that almost the whole world is asleep.
Everybody you know. Everybody you see. Everybody you talk to.
He says that only a few people are awake and they live in a state of constant total amazement."

This is a quote from Joe vs. the Volcano and is one of my favorite life quotes.

I am coming to believe that active participation in BDSM can really contribute to a person being "awake" and seeing and experiencing the world in ways that most never will. It approaches and even pushes edges on both sides and can (in my still very newbie opinion) be a very stimulating factor in a person's life contributing to that clear eyed sense of the world and how wonderful it all is and can be.

Or maybe it's just the NRE...

I also believe very much in the Thoreau saying:

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

So do you agree?

How has BDSM aided you in living your life fully "awake" and "singing your song"?
Think back to your life before BDSM...how are you different now...how are you better?
And is it still there for you, or has it subsided with time and have you sunk back into slumber with it?

I enjoyed your post. My only caveat would be that it isn't BDSM that awakens ones life - it is yourself.
Many people have moments of realisations. Many people have epiphanies and it isn't simply down to BDSM. You just come to a moment in your life when it happens and BDSM just happened to be there and a part of your life at that time. For some people, religion does that. Or love. Or death. Or illness. Children. You can list any number or occurances but the only defining factor is oneself. Don't wrap it up in something else and take no credit for yourself for being open to the moment.
You have to be in the moment to live it, but you have to live it to realise the moment is there.

the.dark.

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RE: Constant Total Amazement... - 9/16/2008 1:22:31 AM

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Well, I'm afraid it's kind of backward for me. My grandfather taught me to be that way, many many moons ago, back when I was a wee kitten of a lad. He taught me a lot of things, but the most important was when he said "Remember, neither life nor love are big things. Not at all. They're both just collections of the tiniest moments, some good and some bad. But, it's the collection of all of those moments, the good and the bad, that make them both great."

That stuck with me, those words were, from that very second on, stuck in my head as though he had chiseled them deep into marble.

It was because of this, that I actually ended up in the bdsm (no I don't capatilize shit half the time, oh well) lifestyle. I always kept my eyes open, always tried to live life 'awake', always marveled at everything around me. And found a place here, where things tend to make more sense.

The mountains that I see every day I am still in awe of. One of the most precious things I live for is the snow falling in the streetlamps, millions of flashes of light from them, in the middle of the night when it's so still and calm that you can hear them falling and landing against your hair. The times when my ex and I lay naked beneath a peach tree in august, during a hot night time rain, feeding the fresh peaches to eachother and licking the juice off the others body. Pulling the car over in the middle of nowhere on a long road trip, just to sit on the hood and look at the rainbow way off in the distance.

These are the moments that grandpa spoke of, the small ones, the ones that, in essence, are just a tiny drop in the ocean of a lifetime, moments that, alone are just that, 'moments', insignificant, waste of time, frivilous 'moments'. But together, they shape us and make life not only worthwhile, but truly 'great'.

Edit: Screwy paragraph there, had to split the last one into two.

< Message edited by BKSir -- 9/16/2008 1:25:55 AM >

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RE: Constant Total Amazement... - 9/16/2008 1:31:51 AM

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Awww, I am not meaning to be a downer!! Otter, I am really glad for you, I remember when things were shiny new and exciting!! Feel free to share, I AM enjoying it---and honestly, I cannot imagine my life without kink. I would sooner give up......CHEESE!!!

(Well maybe not ALL cheese.... maybe just the hard cheeses, like caciocavallo. But you get what I mean!)

On the day I take my last breath, I hope to have, a few hours, or even minutes before, have snacked on a luscious bit of Leonora, some perfectly done french bread, vine ripened tomatoes still warm from the sun, and a glowing olive oil into which I can dip them.

On the day they try to take my cheese away, it will be the day they take THEIR last breath. ;)

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RE: Constant Total Amazement... - 9/16/2008 5:03:07 AM

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I liked the.dark's point about "being in the moment" - perhaps because i also identify as Buddhist and that concept is very Zen.

There is wonder all around us daily and we often miss it, but the things that do enter our perception and consciousness have real power if internalized. It occurs to me that many when they first find BDSM go through a similar phase of feeling like scales have fallen from their eyes, perhaps it is because in WIITWD there is more call for internalization of experience, introspection of desire that these experiences have such power over us?

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RE: Constant Total Amazement... - 9/16/2008 9:49:15 AM

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Thank you all for your comments.

I agree that there are certainly other things in life that can spark that awareness and "in the moment" and intense joy. I just wonder if the regular practice and play of BDSM can help keep a person in that mindset due to regularly pushing your edges, releasing endorphins, etc. I think that, like skydiving, it certainly can aid one in reaching that place and I think that is wonderful.

As a related aside, Milady and I had our first real play session last night. My first time in cuffs, collar, and chains, first spanking marks, and the first time anyone but a doctor has every put anything up my backside. I gotta say that about the most intense sensation of the night...was the tickling...when you cannot get away and it just continues and continues...I am insanely ticklish and my whole abdomen hurts!

Anyway, floating in a happy fog, and feel a little tired...everything is different today, and that in large part is due to our play last night and my wonderful Lady. No idea how I got so lucky.

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RE: Constant Total Amazement... - 9/16/2008 11:12:51 AM

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ORIGINAL: LadyHibiscus

Awww, I am not meaning to be a downer!! Otter, I am really glad for you, I remember when things were shiny new and exciting!! Feel free to share, I AM enjoying it---and honestly, I cannot imagine my life without kink. I would sooner give up......CHEESE!!!

(Well maybe not ALL cheese.... maybe just the hard cheeses, like caciocavallo. But you get what I mean!)

On the day I take my last breath, I hope to have, a few hours, or even minutes before, have snacked on a luscious bit of Leonora, some perfectly done french bread, vine ripened tomatoes still warm from the sun, and a glowing olive oil into which I can dip them.

On the day they try to take my cheese away, it will be the day they take THEIR last breath. ;)

Okay, I admit it, I was just being hyperbolic about giving up cheese. Maybe I could give up... well, something. I'll get back to ya.

Congratulations on the great scene, Otter!

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RE: Constant Total Amazement... - 9/16/2008 12:58:26 PM

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Without doubt, LadyHibiscus, I am a bit of a freak right now and I hope you all will be patient with me as I do the "Gosh", "Golly" and "Jeepers" dance for the next weeks/months/...hopefully years! This experience is among the most profound things I have yet encountered. It is just so right for me.

I wish for you all of the excitement and energy I am feeling right now. It is heady and I appear to have plenty to spare!

I love life even more when I'm near people with such wonderful attitudes and frames of mind. Thanks Otter!

I also feel this way, I'm not new to BDSM but I am to being owned, and it's opened many new doors for me into my psyche, all so far leading to great places!

I am singing like a thing possessed.

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RE: Constant Total Amazement... - 9/18/2008 12:32:07 AM

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ORIGINAL: OttersSwim

"My father says that almost the whole world is asleep.
Everybody you know. Everybody you see. Everybody you talk to.
He says that only a few people are awake and they live in a state of constant total amazement."

This is a quote from Joe vs. the Volcano and is one of my favorite life quotes.

I am coming to believe that active participation in BDSM can really contribute to a person being "awake" and seeing and experiencing the world in ways that most never will. It approaches and even pushes edges on both sides and can (in my still very newbie opinion) be a very stimulating factor in a person's life contributing to that clear eyed sense of the world and how wonderful it all is and can be.

Or maybe it's just the NRE...

I also believe very much in the Thoreau saying:

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

So do you agree?

How has BDSM aided you in living your life fully "awake" and "singing your song"?
Think back to your life before BDSM...how are you different now...how are you better?
And is it still there for you, or has it subsided with time and have you sunk back into slumber with it?

IMOO
I fully believe BDSM or living this life choice can awaken you and cause you to sing for the rest of your days. Congrats OS on finding your song. Beware that it can also sink you to depths you could never have realized. Just like 'nilla life. There's highs and lows all through. It's up to you to keep singing, just keep your eyes open too.

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