My Dear Kat,
I think we are on to something important in this discussion of allowing something to happen. By insisting on a particular movie or director or genre rather than a preference, certain possibilities are ruled out, but by being open to alternatives, anything is possible. This is a subtle point. It’s different from suppressing one’s desires, different from taking a position of not caring, and different from freezing into inaction. It’s about being open to other possibilities, of not being locked into a mindset of how things have to be.
We had a discussion about sex this morning that picked up this idea.
Sex seems to get better and better; again and again we have a never-before experience of union, and yet next time we discover something fresh and new. This feels very mysterious, and contrary to the way things work in the world. You pointed out that we act similarly to how we behave outside; we don’t have rules about what must be or expectations about what should or will happen, and this allows a spontaneous flow into states that we cannot imagine beforehand.
One way we came to this was when a medical condition precluded intercourse for some time. This required us to be sexual in other ways, and showed us that sexual excitement and orgasm is not limited to particular body parts, but can occur anywhere and in many ways; it is a state of arousal that we achieve together, a state in which any or all of the body can partake. Of course it is facilitated by and strongly connected to genitals, hormones, history and erotica, but it is as if they are only a gateway to bonding, that experience of being part of something over and above our individual selves.
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