For most that know me, it will come as little of a surprise that I am an avid profile reader. Okay, perhaps profile fetishist is probably a description that is somewhat closer to the truth. Whenever I am sitting around talking to people I can never stop looking at profiles and reading what people put into them.
Often I notice peoples ages. And one of the things I notice is that where once I was just a young kitten exploring the world, it seems by now, more often and often I find myself one of the older avatars in the room (I am leaving it to a jury of my peers if I have grown wiser in these days).
I know a good thousand days ago I was kind of annoyed to miss my first thousand days in Second Life, so by now I think it’s a great time to take stock of what has transpired the last years. Second Life as a digital ongoing virtual world has seen many changes, some for the better and some for the worse.
I think above all I should be grateful for the things I have, rather than contemplating for the things I have not or can not get. And trust me the things I have are plentiful. I have two wonderful sisters and close friends (You all know who you are!). I have a wonderful family of friends, both close by and extended. And of course above all I have a wonderful Mistress who keeps me on the straight and narrow and looks after me, in both this world and the real one.
In the last thousand days we have seen so many changes, the viewer 2 (and now 3), mesh has come and getting a foot in the doorway. People disappear, resurface, alted or not. relations come, go, and in some cases stay. Above all people still complain and bitch about Second Life being slow, the lag and the general instability of it all.
To the last group of people, I say this; you don’t know how good things are these days. Sure there is still a long way to go before the world is perfect, but for those who remember the olden days, and I talk about 2007 to 2009, where every Friday you could just wait for the asset server to pack it in, for TP’s to be completely unreliable. HAH, things are much smoother these days. I remember a time that the Linux client had such a problem that, well after every TP I tended to crash. Trust me it makes shopping a huge pain.
Of course this year I or rather we, that is Mistress and me will be celebrating our three years together. How time flies and how much things have changed. *smiles* I am still madly devoted to her and taking care of our lives consist of a good proportion of my SL Life. Of course the control is just not just in world, as we include some real life aspects of it as well such as my sleeping times, which all in all is good for me.
So, two thousands day in SL. I must admit I am somewhat surprised at it. When I first joined Second Life in late 2006, it wasn’t all that much. But over time I have loved, lost and loved again. But above all I have made some great friendships to which my virtual and my real life has been richer for it. So from the bottom of my heart, I thank you all for being there. Not just for the laughs, but to share my pain, my tears, my fears, my hopes and endured my silliness.
And above all, for plain accepting for who I am…
up to the next thousand
with all my love
lexi
