By AJ
Note: This is based on a true, consensual and life-changing encounter.
A single tear rolled down my cheek. It didn’t sting. It didn’t signal grief. It simply fell, carrying the emotional weight of two lives I balance: the predictable, structured life I would soon return to, and the controlled life I had just lived. One world is ordinary, structured, and restrained; the other is intense, liberated, and shaped by surrender.
Here I was permitted and encouraged to be someone else. I was untethered figuratively while tethered literally. Sir fully guided, freed me from all choice and decision, left me needing only to make one easy decision: obey and endure what had been decided for me. I had explored corners of experience most would neither imagine nor dare, and in that exploration, I had discovered a freedom I could never find in my ordinary life.
