House Natasha

I've been in SL for about a year and a half.  I was still in college when I first heard a little story on the Today Show about SecondLife, and was a bit curious.  During a break I decided I'd create an account and see what all the fuss was about.  I honestly don't know how I ended up at the BDSM School for Submissives, perhaps it was fate (my default home was a BSDM Mall).  At any rate I was curious for a few reasons, and stuck around long enough to come to love the school and the regulars there.  I enjoyed the benches out front and the conversations that would continue into the early (sometimes not so early) hours of the morning.
 
I'm guilty of making the rookie mistakes that many make when they first find SL... I got swept away with a wave of excitement.  The newfound rush of being submissive.  Now, I didn't just fall at any Dominant's feet, but I was submissively polite.  I found my first "Mistress" and the journey began.  It only lasted a couple weeks, but time is different in-world, and those weeks were like a short lifetime.  During this time I realized a truth (okay, part of a truth), and that was that I longed to be a Dominant.  Though my SL filtered eyes, I decided that I would "learn" to be Dominant by experiencing being submissive.
 
I attended the school's classes as regularly as I could, and enjoyed them very much.  I met Lady Natasha and J at the school though that's not where I got to know them. It may be difficult for anyone who knows me to believe, I felt timid and shy around them, and so any interaction was "formal" and polite.  That's not to say that I didn't want to get to know them better, I just didn't know how.
 
Fast forwarding a bit, I first really came to know Lady Natasha and J after I'd had a terrible heartbreak.  Lady Natasha was so wonderful to me.  She allowed me to sit with Her, and she listened as I poured my heart out.  Night after night She would sit with me and we would talk through the night into the morning.  She was wonderful to me, and through our conversations She helped me to learn about myself, and to warm my heart once more.  I truly love Her :)
 
Since those early days in SL I've learned much about myself.  I've grown as a woman both in SL and in the real world.  As it concerns D/s, I am primarily submissive.  I'm submissive with a tendency to be Dominant... though both roles don't apply to just anyone.  I'm much more confident than I was when I found this world, and I'm learning (always) to be happier with who I am, in both worlds.

(I may come back and add some to this section, or perhaps I'll just put it in my Journal.  Check back and see)