Obligations and Possession (Subject pilfered from the journal of Arianthrax)

As an offshoot from Ari's train of thought on the subject of possession (I started musing on it in her comments then decided I shouldn't fill up her space with my meandering drivel). Do we possess people? Can we? Should we? Why do we attempt to do so.

Now there are several different interpretations of the possession of others and all of them are valid topics for thought and in a way they are all related. There is, perhaps the strongest of them, slavery. Outlawed in Canada but still rampant in much of the world. I certainly won't defend it or its practitioners. But even in slavery does anyone truly possess a person... they may treat them as property but does that make them property?

Do I have an answer for that? No, I don't. I don't have an answer just my ponderings.

And my ponderings lead me to think that in the deepest sense of the word (perhaps more acurately the concept) the only one who can completely and totally posses you is you, yourself.

The only one who can create/keep/break the network of obligations and relationships that we carry with us, is ourselves. We reach out to other people, yes, we sometimes feel we have to do things for other people, or even that others should do things for us... and that's OK in my opinion... but these feelings of having obligations are created in our own minds...

Anyhow, I have to leave this train of thought as muzzy and confused as it is, because I'm babysitting and Jacob just woke up. I'll check back later.

~Em