My Heroes have always been Cowboys

A person who follows their own lights, rarely asking help from anyone. They want what they want and generally don't hesitate to take it. This could describe a Dom/me, but stir in a facility with rope, and you get cowboy. Now when I grew up here in the West, I didn't 'specially want to be a cowboy, because I really did not understand them anymore than they understood me, a long-haired hippie-type.

And as the years passed I mellowed, I guess, and began to appreciate there was more than one way to view the world, always believing a man who would look you in the eye and shake your hand and live up to his word was someone you could rely on. It was the way I was raised, I just didn't realize what it meant.

Anyone can sign a contract, then walk away. But a person who would rather suffer physical pain than renege on a promise, that's the sort of person I want around me, waking or sleeping. I don't fault anyone for not being that way, but those who are not may find me scarce.