If you ask Me, they're all wrong.
However, that's just My opinion; that and 50 cents (the currency, not Curtis Jackson) will get you a senior coffee at McDonald's...assuming you're at least 55 years old.
I know, I know. What a weird-ass opening, considering the title. Expecting some E L James/Christian Grey bullshit? Look elsewhere for that; the only thing grey about Me is My hair. This has nothing to do with a wanna-be soccer mom and her midlife crisis fantasies, or a spoiled rich brat with a helicopter abusing women. This has to do with life.
Anyway, on with the show...
Over the course of 43, soon to be 44 years of life, I have come to a realization; nothing is black and white. Rather, little is black and white; most everything lies in the shades of grey in the middle, and there truly are 50 shades of grey. From birth to death, and everything in between, nothing is simple; even the act of breathing is a complex one when you look at the science of how Our bodies convert oxygen and nitrogen into a life-sustaining substance.
I have met so many people that think in black and white just over the last almost 2 years in Tennessee; it astounds Me. Perhaps that can be attributed to the fact that We live in the buckle of the Bible belt; *insert Gomer Pyle yelling at you about how being a closet butt-sex freak is going to send you to Hell*. Not even the Bible is black-and-white; Gomer may be yelling at you about your "closet butt-sex" ways, but the Bible says nothing about anal sex.
Nothing is black and white.
As My About Me says, I am a polyamorous Gorean Master; if you are a part of the BDSM lifestyle, then you know that even that is not black-and-white. I give Orders, yes; I make Rules, yes. They are to be followed, yes; if they are not, there are repercussions. Sounds cut and dried, right? WRONG. I have 3 girls now; 2 that live with Me, one on the other side of the pond. My Rules and Orders have a basic undertone to them, but that is never quite enough; I have to adjust them, sometimes daily and on the fly, to meet varying situations and needs.
Nothing is black and white.
The long and the short of it; life, generally speaking, is complicated. There are no users manuals, no EULAs, no Cliff's Notes. When you think that something can only be one way or the other, step back out of your box and think again; there is ALWAYS another perspective. Nothing is black and white; everything lies in the 50 shades of grey in the middle.
