SWITCH?
Yup. The identity becomes me. How can one be whole when tilted ridiculously to one side or the other? It's like trying to walk on one leg. Hop, hop, hop.
So, I decided it was more realistic to make the statement "switch". After all, I am both masochist and sadist. I crave the misery of continued existence, and am too bold and surly to give up. Sensation intrigues me, whether mine or yours.
Plus, it allows me to do away with all that annoying capitalization of the word "Me".
I'm sure my perspective will offend many, at least, I am hoping it does. I am actually ready to embrace the fact that as much as I love love, I also must honestly admit I am often filled with rage and hatred, like those I claim to disdain.
The only difference is in how I cope with it.
For example, pain. I have pain right now. I think it has a sacred source and I'm embracing it. I have pain in my emotional life as I look at the apathy in the world, the scoff of politics and the lies in the media. But how will pitching a verbal fit help?
It wont.
On the other hand, I enjoy inflicting and observing suffering. I see the impact I have in certain areas within my scope of awareness and I feel the piercing spite in the faces of those who cannot have what they want: ME.
I cope with it in a benighn fashion. It is internalized and roasted over the flame of self-assesment and the willingness to discover and admit my own hypocricy.
There is an explicitness to the way I conduct myself. I pander to the petty needs of certain people, knowing that we all need someone to freak out upon as we scream the desperate scream of the trapped and disposable. I listen attentively to fools aching for meaning, especially meaning from their own sour mouth. Who will hear their cries if not for a bold masochist who genuinely seeks to soothe the horror of uncontrolled frustration, merely for the private honor of knowing they have done a strong and difficult deed?
Also, I turn this viciousness upon my sweet beloved associates, and crack the insolent whip of insistance and threat, disregarding the cries emerging from the fear of solitude that drive one to suffer so for the company of another. I peer relentlessly into the eyes of weakness, wherever they reveal themselves, inviting the atrocity of a love lost and torn, but for the sake of truth. I would rather show respect for an act of bravery, even if it is done in ignorance of potential satisfaction, had it been done differently.
There is a beauty in strength exercised thus. While I may represent an ideal in physical form, I also represent the failure of the ages, and I am happy to admit it. While there is disparity amongst the fit and unfit specimens of this sordid community, I will ache and reach for the ones who make the bread of life satisfying to the tooth-- the insecure, the wasted, the weak, broken, and yet defiant masses that are the community of collarme.com. Some may call me delicious names like... well, I will leave that to your own creativity. But for those who feel the sting of truth sharper than a hot iron, a snapping whiplash, and the first delicate piercing of a virgin anus with a frozen banana (my favorite), we are a community of harmony and wit, hopefully of enduring humor.
Let us not take ourselves too seriously. After all, this is supposed to be fun.