Everyday I grow more and more impressed with Second Life.
Once I got over the newness of it all and I was starting to go sit in the corner when I went to parties, I had this ugly feeling about it. This is a waste of time. Why am I on this boring thing?
Then I looked at it “the game” and said, “I’m here for a reason, let’s explore and meet as many people as I can.”
Everyay I have an interaction with someone that leads me to find out a little more about their personality. There’s this woman that I met at the basketball courts on SL and at first she didnt even say Hi, those women on the courts aren’t friendly, but then she came up to me and custom made me a skin.
I mean…I felt like I was in some kind of high tech movie thriller because some kind of way, this woman’s avatar, stood in front of me, and she did something to her face so that I could see the skin she was working on. HER FACE MORPHED RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME.
I was like..HELL NAW! That was scary!
Wait…listen. A skin on SL consists of the exterior of the body you have now, basically, your skin, facial features, etc. You can have a skin and then you need a shape which is the body type you want. So a skin and a shape must be worn together. And these two must compliment each other because certain skins look different on different body shape.
Isn’t that amazing?
So she made me a skin, which i LOVED the way my face looked, but I wasn’ t satisfied with my color. I want to be a bit darker than I am in real life but I can’t find any skins with the right color. I want that rich, shiny snickers bar color, with maybe some red undertones.
The skin I’m wearing now..I LOVE. But! She looks white to me. I don’t want to be running around looking like a white girl, that’s never been my fantasy.
So anyway, I’m weird today.
This same chick who made the skin for me, I saw her at the courts and she left and then sent me a TP (which is a teleport request) which invites me to come where she is. When I get there, it’s this old cruddy hang out spot with so many different kinds of avatars. The music was so different, I can’t even describe it.
People were running around, eating and dancing. I sat back and watched and poked my head into every tent they had pitched. It was a raggedy looking place with beer cans, bongs, people smoking and everything.
Wow..WHat a different side to see from the woman who gave me and Jadean a makeover.
On the surface, it’s a world, but really, it’s a world. Did you see Horton Hears a Who? It’s the same thing.
I have a house in SL. I have a job in SL that pays me a salary in order to pay for my house. I write for an SL magazine.
I joined a group called WISDOM and every person that is apart of the group, has an eclectic spiritual background. They hold meetings and every meeting is on a different topic like Chakra Opening and Men & Spirituality.
I feel like I’m learning so much. The other night I was invited to a rave party in the forest to celebrate the birthday of the guy who invested LSD. They were playing trance music.
Whic sounds a bit like African house music to me. Again..I’ve only heard about African house music because I was exposed to someone on SL.
I’m meeting people in Holland, North Africa and when you hang out with them, they show you what their people are doing and all of the recreation styles are unique.
I haven’t made any SL FRIENDS that make me feel, “OMG I HAVE TO LOG ON!”
No, none of that. But I do love to log on and see what spiritual meditation group or discussion they are having today. I also like to just walk my avatar around my SL House and look at things and smile. Then I go up to my bedroom and sit on my bed and stare at the picture of my imaginary boyfriend on the wall.
If you ever get to come to SL, I’ll show you who he is, the pic is of someone I know in real life.
Oh yeah..Almost forgot. I started a new blog (hahahahhahaaa!) because I needed a place where I could have fun. With all this writing for school and for the new gigs and what not..writing wasn’t fun anymore.
So I started this blog called SL BEST IN BLACK. I named it after a themed party I went to one time on SL. And it also has a double meaning, I’m showcasing the BEST of the Black Community in SL.
I ask questions, they are so open and nice enough to answer. I’ve gotten the profiles and inside story of people’s SL lives. This is my fun writing because even on this blog, I’m not really writing and growing, I’m just spilling out emotions through the keyboard.
It should be interesting. Check it out.