Quote Originally Posted by Lord Hemloc View Post
But to
strive for praise which means something, a risk
has to be taken. The risk of failure. The
specter of failure looms so high and dark in the
minds and hearts of some applicants that they
shut their eyes and settle for mediocre
existence’s. No real authority, no real service,
no real achievement. A trainee has to
risk disapproval, disappointment, and shame…
because what she does matters.

And when you love someone, you are
tempted to bend over backwards in order to keep
them, in order to get them not to leave. This
puts the power in their (submissives') hands to some degree,
and creates the situation of a dominant losing
his authority in order to keep a submissive and
everything falls apart.
What these words say to me is that not taking the risk to fail leads to failure.

A very powerfully altering thought.

tessa