Friday, December 31, 2004

A long time coming

A couple of days when we can be a family. The Christmas period afforded us that this week and having got over the festivities and with the kids going to their dads for a day/overnight stay, Master and i finally made the trip to meet a Mistress and sub we have known for quite some time via online and the seekers chat room.

The times we have said we would pay them a visit have never come to anything for all sorts of reasons but this time, a quick decision by Master and we are off on our journey. It was a spur of the moment thing rather than plan weeks and months ahead of ourselves which never works out due mainly to the way our days are so taken up with the more mundane aspects of life. Not a vast distance either, a couple of hours drive away, an advantage of being UK based, the distances are never that great and can be done in a relatively short space of time... no excuse then really, not to take advantage of a few free days over the holiday period.

What can i say about the visit, without making the pair of them quake in fear of what we might have thought about them. ( i jest, because i know they will read this blog so i am winding them up really)

We laugh and joke on a daily basis, we talk and chat about life problems, helping out if at all possible, we are there always for each other and that's before we had even met real life. Finally able to put faces to chat nics, to the person behind the hours and hours of online conversation is great, it brings it all into the realms of reality, not that they were ever not real before as we have spoken often on the phone but to meet face to face and spend a few hours in each other company is great and a pleasure for me (i hope for them also).

What did we do, nothing really, talked, relaxed, had a meal, drank loads of tea and enjoyed finally being able to sit in the same space in time. But the depth of the relationship is now far more than it was before, for with reality comes a closer bond, the ability to "know" these people, they are now more than names on a screen, far more, and i for one hope that this bond grows further over time.

Of course, the chat was a lot about D/s and the way each couple lives and what floats their/our boats but there was no pretence, no trying to prove a point or make an impression, i think we have got long past that idea after 2/3 years of talking online, we were all, just ourselves and i know i can say, when the door was opened to us, it was like greeting a friend we hadnt seen for a while, for me there was no nerves in meeting for the first time and that i think was because, altho it is true that we have never actually being in each others company prior, it felt like, feels like, we have known these people forever and that this meeting was just a catch up on lost time.

My blogs tends to have some underlying motive, some gem of an idea that comes from most of the things that i write about, but right now, what that concept is i am not sure as i have yet to find a hidden reason or resource to come out of this visit other than to say, finally i have met these people who have become something of a major part of my social circle. Ahhh but you may say, they are only online friends, the chances of anything that constitutes their way of life, having any bearing on mine is unlikely, but you would be very wrong if you made that assumption. Online or not, these people are real, have real lives, real situations, real ups and downs and because they are friends, albeit online (until now) i care, they care, we care for one another, we worry, we try to help one another out, and talk, well.... they can talk for England !!

i guess what i really wanted to say in this blog was, thanks you two, for the opportunity to finally met you and for the hospitality afforded to MG and myself, you know where we are if and when, take care both (k)



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