5:34 p.m. - 01.15.11
yup, i'm spoiled.
This whole ideal that a slave gets and maintains her sense of worth from her Master, solely from her Master, is romantic tomfoolery. A slave needs to understand her inherent worth.
I want to put this into terms of owning a home.
Whether that home is in a ritzy-titzy neighborhood, or in the ghetto, it STILL HAS VALUE and can have it's value increased. The house isn't arrogant for having value, and neither am I.
The property owner understands that shit is going to break. Other shit is going to need upgrading. Not to mention general maintenance all around. Trash, clean-up, utilities.
For the most part, the owner gets to choose when he does certain things. When to install that new floor. When to change the windows. When it gets new paint. When to rake the leaves. When to send the check for the water bill.
It isn't a matter of IF it gets these things, but WHEN. The house isn't arrogant for needing these things, and neither am I.
There are things my house needs, and take me as is and DO what needs doing when the fuck you get ready to, but damn it, DO it.
It's no more arrogant for me to expect that I get some niceties, seeing as those same niceties improve the value of HIS property. A rose bush here, an apple tree there. It's as it should be. That is why people invest in property, isn't it?
Then there are those unexpected emergencies.
Those things that need to be tended to and repaired, right. fucking. now.
Broken pipes. Blown furnace. Backed up sewer. Flooding.
All things the owner gets blindsided with. Things he has NO CONTROL OVER. If he's a good owner, he figures out the problem based on the symptoms, noises and aromas, and fixes it, the right way. Once he does, he can be certain he won't have to hear from that part for another 30yrs. The house isn't arrogant for blowing a valve or getting a clogged drain, and neither am I.
Do you curse the house for having a need that needs to be tended to right now? Fixed, right now? You do if you're a slumlord. If you're an owner, you do what needs to be done, take it in stride and know you're keeping something of value, valuable.
Just because I am human does not negate the fact that I am like any other property. Shit. fucking. happens. Fix it, or don't call yourself anything but what you are, a slumlord undeserving of owning a home, simply, because you have no concept of the differences between house and home, and the differences in what each have the potential to provide.
So, if being a house that wants a homeowner, and not a slumlord, makes me spoiled, if expecting from my owner anything less than what any smart homeowner knows, then fuck it, I am the most spoiled bitch on the face of the earth.
