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Are you there, Brigit? It’s me…
It’s not difficult to speak of Brigit in the third person, as she is one of the more important facets of my personality who sometimes seems as if she is a complete being of her own, especially since she is the part of myself that needs to be hidden from most of the people in my “normal” life. It’s a common complaint of erotica writers and sex bloggers, actually…that we live a sort of divided life, unable to merge the side of ourselves we show to our online community with the sides of ourselves we can show at our day jobs and to our families and friends. Because of this…
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You’re not alone…
Just this morning, I read a post by kisungura at mycontrolledascent.com that really struck a chord because it hit so close to home. The post is mainly about how she and her husband both give too much to their work and their children, leaving little to nothing left for each other…too often…to the point that they have lost touch with their marriage enough to have given up their D/s relationship. Because of it, she’s flailing and lost. It’s a common theme, really…giving all we’ve got to the world outside, taking our loved ones for granted, assuming they’ll always be there…until they aren’t. I’ve been guilty of this far more often…
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Train Jumping
Sometimes it’s hard to motivate myself to start things, but once I’m on the productivity train, it’s hard to derail me. I get moving in a particular direction and just keep going until I hit my destination. The problem with this is I have several trains running at one time in my life, and I can’t really be on more than one at a time. So the only way to keep things going smoothly in my life is learning to jump from train to train without killing myself. People talk about work/life balance. But I honestly think there is no such thing as true balance – and trying to achieve…
