The Dentist Who Doesn't Lust
>> Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Last week on a bus to the amazing metropolitan city of Chennai, I met a dentist. I know he was a dentist because he asked me why I hadn't sought out orthodontic treatment (I have unusually sharp and slightly out-of-place canines), and then gave me professional advice on how to correct my unseemliness ("Of course though, if it doesn't bother you aesthetically then I suppose it's alright"). I could hear him speak in italics. Added to this his constant greasy grinning and what he told me next, I don't think I liked him very much.
He said he didn't lust any more. We were discussing various Art of Living programmes (I haven't been to any but I would like to) and he told me how, through controlled breathing and willpower, he did not experience the negative emotion of lust any more.
What is negative about the emotion of lust? I don't always act on it, but the occassional surge of wanting (or frisson, as a writer of 'romantica' might put it) feels pretty nice.
If I could host erections, I'd want to be able to revel in them.
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11 comments:
Love the last line.
Agreed. That last line is great.
Dammit, I wanted to say that!
So when are you gonna meet your " Daanton ka Raja"?
MOET51
I'm less proud of my medical background now.
Lust bad. Denial good.
What else can you expect from a dentist who you meet in a bus in Chennai? Poor guy.
Hmm..
I find when comes to pleasures one might revel in, you get so much more out of the secret, guilty kind than from anything unashamedly honest and open.
Mayhaps, I enjoy the utterly private, secret pleasure they give me. Like a little secret just between me and the girl two rows ahead with a low cut top.
Hahaha...Just came to your blog as a friend of mine said I might enjoy ur style of writing...I did...
Well what a bore life wud be if there weren't erections and contractions and a whole lot of tions in btwn...
Seriously? I have been to AOL classes and it hasn't affected any of my emotions.
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