On a Second Life

So you wanna get a second life? Well, see if you have a first one, and quite sure what's it about, that first, real life. So you don't make a mess out of your another chance.

I'll use mine to explore, see places from the comfort of my keyboard. Its really an awesome experience to get to a Sim that's tastefully done, the streaming music in sync with the time, the ambiance that a particular place wants its visitors to imbibe. I keep coming back to places like that, and I've known some. I and my man, who live an hour time-zone away from each other, after webcam-chats on yahoo messenger, would then get inworld into SL. Since I went online, never known a place that would be more fun. All imaginations gone unleashed, some breathtaking, and well, some are pretty bad. But I haven't got yet to telling anyone to better spend a few linden and buy other people's creations. I must confess I haven't been able to add to the mayhem, the curiosity to build is getting in but I haven't gone to that. Not yet.

I'll use mine to explore, get out of myself. It's amazing how others perceive their own second lives. Some fantasize themselves into a roleplay, going back in time, or even simply, living a fairy tale. There are slaves, because there are masters. Others are so busy making a linden dollar, and I tell you, there are a lot of opportunities, just like in the real world. Some are here to play, have fun. Its getting interesting for me to see myself in a pixel-generated avatar reinvent everything, from flexi-hairs to how tall I can be.

I'll use mine to explore, meet new people. Just like in the real world, things here can get pretty real too. The meeting of the minds, the chance meeting on a lonely nook, the connection. Packed dancehalls, jammed live concerts, and even on the camping pad are people all over the globe. Once one asked me how many I got on my contact list, and was shocked when I replied that I got less than ten, while he got a hundred and fifty. He got sad when along the way he got taken off that list. Well, I was trying to explore. Less lag if you got less inventory. Travel light.