Arms of Another Man

IDEA, PROCESS, HOMOSEXUALS, SOCIETY

The way it's supposed to be.

My poor, little life! What a mess. What a disappointment. I am what I have turned out to be. I turned out to be what I have been all along. You know that God does not intend for us to be anything other than His spiritual idea, yes? God’s vision for each and every one of us is that we are His divine ideas. That’s what makes us special. It isn’t some unique invention of our own design that makes us significant. It isn’t being in the world that makes us special. How many billions of us are there in the world? Approximately seven billion. Are all seven billion of us special? Yes. Are we all unique? Yes. But, in the world, by its own standards, some few men and women are thought of as being more important and worthy of regard than the rest. That’s the way of the world, and it doesn’t matter how hard I try to change it, the world wins. Most of us have to learn how to be content with mediocrity and anonymity in life. Most of us have to learn how to lead little people lives. The great unwashed masses. Homosexuals are not the masses, but I don’t doubt that there are a lot of us in the ranks. We are a kind of creeping presence in culture and society. We never go away. While there’s life, there will be men having sex together. Men will always form intimate, sexual relationships with other men. We will always find ways to love each other.

Spirituality, writing, commerce, sex. I pretty much know what my priorities are, but I don’t always know which one is greater than the other. Experience teaches one what must come first, and how to live one’s life to best advantage. Learning how to live is a long and difficult process, which only ends with death. Life’s essential character is the learning process, even for homosexuals. I don’t spend all of my time thinking about and having sex in one form or another. Life demands that I spend time doing other things. Damn! Wouldn’t it be fun to have sex all the time? Wouldn’t it be lovely to live all of life in the arms of another man?

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