greetings chanz,
i am so happy you posted this. thank you for the encouragement to share my opinion. no, your collar, nor your life should be taken for granted. there is always a better way to present yourself, serve a Free, help a sister and even annoy a thrall. i am open to critique or lesson. i do not always appreciate the method, but i need them to continue growing. may that never stop.
my first thoughts are:
all slaves, no matter their "level" be periodically restested, to make sure they still hold the knowledge that level implies. kettles to senior mat/thrall should be tested every six months and pagar slaves, which includes myself, should be retested every three. if you are gone for a gorean month, you are retested before returning to your last "level". the rare medical exemption will be handed down by only Master Ubar.
chores claimed on this board, gifts made, service given, etc. must actually be roleplayed out in the room. for example, ic in the room i post "kiah walks to the chamber pots and cleans them one by one." and then go to the choreboard and claim "kiah cleaned the chamber pots". is that true? is that fair to those that do chore out in steps? i understand the desire to give as much as you can but is it better to "complete" a list of chores half~assed done or do only one to the best of your ability?
please know that kiah understands each Owner has their own standard of excellence and unique pleasures. rt bites our butts all too often. some of you are working extensively offline/behind the scenes. camp and its chores are impossible to "complete" alone. however, my sisters, all too many times there seems to be a snap of the fingers and voila a chore is done. we all know we can do better than that.
chanz is dead right in our needing to help eachother and i ask this rhetorical question, as i don't want to hijack this post. (please don't' hijack the post): what have you done to help wren after her discipline?
yes, in the end, we are only slaves, yet we are Tuchuk kajirae, the best of all of Gor. if you're a kettle, as we all were at one point, then you be the best kettle you can be. no active training due to migration? then you be ready to test the moment it does. if dancing is your weakness, you dance, dance, dance, in your head, in your heart, over and over, until it's your strength.
we need the Free, our Owners, our trainers and we definitely need eachother. just as importantly, we need to do just as much ourselves, on our own, without our hand held, bottom swatted or board post from a trainer. inspiration, strength and lessons can't always come from another. self~discipline and self~reflection are important in a slave.
above all, we need to remember, every word, spoken or thought, every action, commanded or offered, is a test of our worthiness.
i appreciate the Free giving us this board to speak. thank you for listening to me.
with "tough love",
kiah{MTC}
