Fun and spanking.

Sometimes it is easy to forget what it is that makes this lifestyle so enjoyable for us all. I understand that PLAYFUL SPANKINGS are not everyone’s cup of tea, and recently it came to my attention that not everyone enjoys mainstream spanking. For those of us who are older though, mainstream spanking was a big part of our lives for many decades.

The Internet in all its glory has given us the opportunity to live our chosen lifestyle whenever we want, and I sometimes think that there is a divide in people who grew up before the Internet, and those who grew up with the Internet. A lot of it I can’t relate to and I can only think how badly things may have turned out had the Internet been around when I grew up.

BTW, I might write for a bit so here is this weeks photo for those of you who aren’t in to the words that I write. I will continue under the photo.

One thing that I have always known is that had the Internet been around when I grew up, I would have made so many mistakes and bad judgement calls in this lifestyle of ours that I may well have exited the scene 30 years ago. In 1981 I made a really stupid error of judgement that, while it turned out okay, could have been the worst mistake of my life. I was 18 years old and boarded a bus for London to attend an adult event. It was horrible, as seedy as fuck, not even in the same ballpark as to what I thought I was going to, and with eternal gratefulness, someone took me under their wing and made sure that I left early and made it home safely. Or at least as safe as a naive outsider could feel in Clapham at 10pm at night. I didn’t go back to a spanking related event for another 25 years after that.

The Amanda Todd story in particular is something that affected me deeply as well. Bullying is not something that I have ever understood, the whole concept is incomprehensible to me. When kids go through their younger years virtually all of them go through some varying level of bullying, in fact probably most of you reading this went through the same thing. I was 18 years old when I started working in social services, working with people with developmental or physical disabilities, it was the only career that I had ever known up until my most recent job. Granted, the most recent job I was at for 17 years, almost as long as my entire career in social services prior to that. From a young age though I only ever had empathy and compassion for my fellow humans.

Now don’t get me wrong, I’m not painting myself out to be a saint by any means. My whole life I have always been a loner, I left my family and friends behind when I was 24 years old to move to America and I never looked back. I’ve got many drawbacks as a person, empathy and compassion are not a part of them though. Actually, now that I think about it, these are probably the reasons why I am such a loner, I fucking hate how people treat each other, lol.

I couldn’t even imagine what youngsters have to put up with on the Internet. I remember what it was like myself, and like a great many adults we look at someone like Amanda and just wish that we could have been there for her. Did you know this as well? While it may not be as prevalent as it once was, people will still hound her parents with comments like “The stupid ugly bitch deserved to die”. If you don’t believe me, just search for the Amanda Todd video on Youtube and read the comments, it is heartbreaking. Every year I watch her video to remind myself how to treat my fellow humans.

This may seem like a strange prediction to make, especially being that in relative terms the Internet is still in its infancy, but I actually think that one day, probably long after I am gone, the Internet is going to go through a reversal. I believe that one day communities and families will go back to how it was prior to the Internet, in that social interaction will be more important than the Internet. My vision for the future is that the Internet will be based more on business and education than it will for personal interaction. I know that it is crazy to think this way, but I genuinely believe it, the Internet will become boring for purposes other than the most practical ones out there, such as education.

Nothing is forever. I’m not planning on finishing this blog anytime soon, I mean shit, I have so much left to share that even today I could post every day for the next ten years and still have material left over. The reality of the situation is this though, perhaps there is only five years left, who knows. I’ve started late in the business field being that I am 56 years old, but I intend to spend the rest of my days being self employed, doing the things that I enjoy in life. So at some point this blog will eventually finish.

Before I leave you with the full sized version of the above image, if you are struggling to cope with things you can always email me at richardofwindsor@gmail.com . In the last year I lost a friend who took her own life, so I realize that in some cases no matter what you do it may never be enough, but I do have empathy and if a letter can help you cope just a little bit longer then I am there for you. Don’t do it alone, there is nothing to be ashamed of when looking for help to cope and move forward.