LeatherBentOne
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ORIGINAL: lucreziaborgia
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ORIGINAL: lucreziaborgia
Since when don't dominants have to be responsible, fully functioning adults?
( apologies to the infirmed, ill, disabled, or those in hard times - these are exceptions)
Who would take orders from a LOSER?
LeatherBentOne:
Wishing you love and happiness. A fine person such as you, who suffered and survives in spirit - as I said above- is a great exception. You are quite a woman.
It is the users, abusers, exploiters who are reprehensible.
Respects to a Lady
To: lucreziaborgia:
Thanks for the compliment but my determination and perseverance comes from selfish reasons of my own. I prefer to like myself and who I see when I wake up and look in the mirror each morning. I think the issue is directly related to self-esteem as a person and as a Domme. I owe it to myself first, then to my submissive.
Plus, I want to altruistically benefit and make some sense as to why this happened to me, rather than sit back with a defeatist attitude and become another victim. Although this body may not be in the best physical condition, there's nothing wrong with my mind.
It takes much strength and determination to make the best of things when life throws one a curve ball, but that's what determines our character, self-worth and self-image. If I'm not for me, who the else can be?
In my quest to make sense of this, I decided that there must be a prophetic reason why I became ill and and cheated death for 5 weeks, lying on my back wondering if I'd wave good-bye to my last dying breath. (Kinda changes one's perspective on living.)
Oh, I bitched and moaned for a while, my own pity party. Then I got real angry with what "happened" to me. Then, a light bulb went off in my head. Guess what? I realised that instead of allowing things "happen" to me, I decided that Id make things "happen."
So.....I started a non-profit, charitable foundation to help fight life-threatening illness ~ to raise direct funding for those afflicted and are uninsured/under-insured, to help them find quality health care, and to put a bomb up Congress' ass to make health care reform. A bill was initated in Congess as a result (2005 and 2007). Three committees voted earlier this month to appropriate $750,000 to the American Medical Association to research the need in allowing the disabled with life-threatening illness to be exempt from the 2yr waiting list before receiving Medicare. Incidently, 400,000 disabled people die each year waiting for their benefits. Hopefully, this bill will pass the President's desk and become a new law. (For those interested search: H.R. 2869, H.R. 154, and S. 1217.)
To: OP
I hope my story inspires you. You can make things happen, instead of them happening to you. Best of luck.
To Others:
I hope that you dont take my post as self-pontificating. I feel I had a point to make and sometimes the best way to do that is to make an example of oneself in trying to help others see that it can be done.
LBO
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RE: Money Issues?? - 
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as well. if you don't work outside the home - then go rake the f'ing leaves and scrub the tub - work! Be useful ( but don't be sucker or be "used" in a negative sense either). 
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