Obedience

I ran across a discussion on obedience and I noticed a few of the slaves mentioned that they found it easy to be obedient because their masters did not ever ask them to do anything they felt was morally offensive, or that was unfair, nor give outrageous orders. There was of course the usual caveat that they took the time to find someone with whom they were compatible and could respect.  As is often the case I look at this discussions slightly differently.

Obedience is what drives me so generally speaking I don't find it overly difficult. There have been in the past and will be in the future orders that I didn't agree with, that I found outrageous, that I found incredibly unfair and I struggled with those things but still I obeyed. My respect for Das has never been contingent on him mirroring my mores and ideals to the point that I would never be pushed outside of my comfort zone.  We trend the same way in most areas but we are by no means identical although we are closer now than we were when we first met mainly due to him tweaking me to bring me in closer alignment with him. Some things he likes me being fairly different from him I suspect in part because watching me struggle to be obedient to orders that go against the grain amuses him. Some would say that he is setting me up to fail in those moments although I don't think so.  Setting me up to fail would be requiring something of me that is impossible for me to achieve, what he asks isn't impossible merely difficult and often terribly uncomfortable but within my abilities.

I see being obedient as not only doing what you are told but doing it whether or not it's something you would chose to do on your own. When all is said and done as his slave being obedient for me isn't "I obey as long as... " it's just "I obey"