2015 Rises
I've developed quite an annoying cold recently, which makes the composition of this rather annoying. I thought, perhaps I should hold off and write this when I'm feeling better, fresher, but no: I want to write it before the year is out. This is my new year's post, my seeing off of 2014, my beckoning in of 2015. 2014 was a mixed bag for me. The first half of the year was marked by becoming sexually active and grappling with all the entailments of that. I still struggle largely with my thoughts on the kind of sexual relationship I have, which is a friends-with-benefits type situation. I'm not entirely comfortable with having that kind of intimacy with somebody I don't love romantically, but at the same time sex can be a lot of fun, so naturally I have vacillated between wanting to terminate the sexual aspect of my friendship, returning to a pure platonic gig, and simply continuing until there is sufficient external reason to stop. It seems as though the latter is w...