Monday, October 15, 2007

October 2007: Yet more challenges and a maybe an opportunity…

Feel somewhat neglected by me? Do you even remember me? Well I wouldn’t blame you if you don’t… Anyway here I am with a new profile and new posting to let you know I still exist.

Since my last posting, I have been hit by more personal challenges – yet another death, again very close to home. I was badly hit just as I was getting back to my feet. But enough of that…I am starting to come out of that whole black period.

One interesting idea has occurred to me while all this was going on, that I would like to explore via this medium. Imagine that suddenly you are no longer tied by ANY family responsibilities and financially you are suddenly (modestly) independent and don’t have to work to earn money… Suddenly your time would be 100% your own and the prospect of a totally hedonistic lifestyle would be a real possibility.

This could all be hypothetical, of course, so let not get bogged down with individual circumstances, but consider the general concept. Think about what you might choose to do. And what might be wise to do too.

Yes, you could continue to work and now all that money you earn could go into buying fun things rather than paying the mortgage on your house and other bills. If that work was mainly based from home, basically it would be a sort of dream lifestyle for many – where you could surround yourself with all the latest toys while keeping your mind tuned into the working world. Of course your time would not be 100% your own and work commitments and trips would mean you compromise what you could do and wear some of the time.

The alternative is that you could give up work and take whatever downsizing actions that would be necessary to secure your financial future. I sometimes think stepping away from a “consumer lifestyle” may not be as bad I think, as much of the excessive luxury we surround ourselves with is probably a compensation for a time poor (money rich) life we are forced into by work. For example, I ask myself, do I really need such a nice car if I no longer have to travel a gazillion miles a year for work?

Essentially you could call it “very early retirement” and I am assuming an independent income will cover the basic plus enough for some luxuries, including the ever expensive rubber fetish and maybe some travel.

Possibilities that spring to my mind are:

Ø Spend ever more time indulging your fetish fantasy. With enough time, you could aim to get beyond the quick thrills and into the next level of sensual existence, which I have been fortunate enough to have glimpsed, if only occasionally.

Ø Dedicate yourself 100% to living that kinky lifestyle with a commitment that all your actions are now all related to fulfilling and exploring your fetish.

Ø Travel to see fetish friends whenever you want.

Ø Spend as long as you want totally sealed in rubber, building your stamina to days, weeks, months… Lock yourself in and give total control of how long you are in there to someone else.

Ø Adapt your life, your wardrobe and your home to supporting your daily long term rubber enclosure fetish.

Ø Advertise for a rubber slave to share your good fortune with, or sell all your worldly goods and become a (financially independent) latex slave in someone else’s rubber household. Whichever lights your candle, you basically spend all your time fulfilling a sensual life for each other.

If time & commitments was not limiting you and earning money was no longer an essential activity, what would you do with your new found freedom? Do you have fantasies you would need this kind of time to fulfil? Do you believe that a human is capable of living a sublime existence? Or do you take the cynical view (popularised in the Matrix) that humanity would not thrive in a utopian world. That humans thrive from battling towards a ideal as long as it is never achieved?

Also, maybe it’s worth re-examining the list and thinking about how many of these things could be achieved without this windfall?

Sealed

2 comments:

Blackie said...

Good to hear from you. Sorry you have had more personal trouble. I was afraid you had overdone restricted breathing.

Interesting yo r remarks on having leisure. I have it to some extent - no work, no family, modest income - but with the snag I am no longer young.

As I have said before I go around in black rubber and peoplelocally know and accept me as an eccentric. On the other hand I live a full and busy vanilla life, and in uch of it my rubber appearance is not known, though many friends and relations know me. however As time goes on my rubber stamina has diminished and enthusiasm comes in waves with vanilla periods.

If I were young anf fit with the same freedom I should undoubtedly lead a rubber life with clubs and some female rubber companion if I could find one - a common fantasy.

Some of your ideas are very interesting. I should stil llike to be your totally enclosed voice changed visit or.

I visualise entering through an open door already rubbered for public viewing and then putting on gasmask, full face hood under of course, to enter a room where you would be standing in TE.

When the visit was over I should depart the same way. Neither would ever see the other's face or hear a real voice, or see an inch of flesh.

If successful the visits could be repeated to build up a wholly rubber relatioship.

More fantastanticly a whole group could be formed - an anonymous club who coould then move on to endurance and bondage trainig, all still anonymous. Less demandingly a TE club could be formed for the usual sort of club meetings.

One to one would have a special fascination in a dimly lit room. What do you think?

SanderO said...

Sorry to hear of the pain you recently endured. You raise some interesting questions.

Let me throw out some ideas.

One thing I am "accused of" doing is asking why and probing for understanding in the world of fetish. Almost everyone one else seems to be in the mode of: I like it, it feels good, I want to do it more, better and increase the "response" and devote more time to my fetish. This post certainly would fall in that category.

So when I do the thought experiment, a few things occur to me.

My age and what I have done, what I can do and how much time I can expect to be around and what those years will be like. As you grow older, your physical capabilities change. In a very real sense, your senses dull. Your hearing declines, your sense of taste and smell slip away, your sexuality goes into decline, your physical strength goes into decline and so forth. We can fight this by good diet, and exercise and lifestyle, but you simply can not stop the clock and you will begin to "dim".

Younger people don't even contemplate the above. Perhaps middle aged ones do or those who have witnessed someone close passing (as you have).

So what IS the agenda going forward?

Having though about this, fetish to me is clearing associated with the vitality of youth and maximized sensory performance. Youth is wasted on the young? Yes and so is fetish!

As you age it needs to change into a more mental and meditative and less a sensual sexual one. That is the reality. A life of a rubberist? Till the end? Just a dream, I think unless you want to go out before you begin to dim.

So what IS left with all that freedom? I would chose to pursue the most aesthetic and artistic experiences. The arts, music, performance, and see and experience more of the magnificence of nature. If I found wearing rubber pleasurable, I would find away to incorporate this into the above experiences. And this means more like modest rubber clothes, streetable. Rubber than you can enjoy the way you might a nice watch or any well designed thing you have around you in your life.

If you don't have to drive much, you can still enjoy the most wonderful car on the few journeys you take.

I would stim my mind with intellectual and aesthetic experiences which I can enjoy until I pass and which are cumlative. The more you expose yourself to "the arts" and to natural experiences, the more you scratch the amazed bone at creativity both man made and from nature.

The fetish drive is, for me, coming from the same place as the sexual drive and this is simply not enough to fill a life with.

But some clearly disagree.

Good to read you again.

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