Aligning will and using intelligence in submission

“Submission depends on the individual’s ability to align his will with that of the dominant and use his intelligence to fulfill her wishes gracefully and efficiently.” -Christina Abernathy, Miss Abernathy’s Concise Slave Training Manual

While this quote is from the male submissive point of view, i completely agree and provide myself as a prime example of this tenant. This issue has been, in my humble opinion, the predominant personality characteristic i have taken with me throughout my life. It's not even so much a D/s thing for me, as i will align myself to the will of the person i am with in almost all circumstances, and i use my empathic tendendancies and my own intellect to please those around me.

Now, as Arach's girl, i am acutely aware of these habits, as i wasn't before. i used to look at these tendencies as character flaws, things that needed to be fixed, because i have often been hurt in the past by being way too open, honest, and willing to please. In Arach, however, i have found a loving Master who nurtures these things in me...He thinks of these things as assets, and fully appreciates what these things mean in His, and my own, fulfillment.

i simply love making people smile, and i use whatever tools available to me to that end. As i get older, i had once thought that this empathy and this need for other's happiness would be tainted by the weight of the world, that i would become a bit jaded. But try as i might, even though i am fully aware of human nature and that by and large most people simply can't be trusted, i do so anyway. i refuse, consciously, to allow this world to beat out of me that which gives Master and me so much joy and peace. To hell with the rest of the world...if they want to view me as a doormat, so be it. If they all think i am weak, fine. i feel it takes more discipline, more strength, and more faith in this world to stay innocent, sweet, kind and caring, then to accept that the world sucks. So, i will stay as i am, open to love and pain, accepting of people in all their glory and their horror, and may the Gods keep me so until the day i pass from this world.