Aight…I have to admit, my time spent on Second Life (SL) is relaxing and becoming more and more fun each day. It’s become my social outlet.
I’ve got my second life addiction under control now. What I do is, do my work first and when my brain gets tired I’ll hop on SL to see who’s around and what they are up to.The most amazing thing about SL is the fact that it coincides with my real life (RL) dreams. It’s as though I’m living out my wildest fantasies in the virtual world.
I actually started a job in SL this week. I know that sounds crazy but I am now a reporter and anchor for a virtual talk show. I get paid in virtual money, which does transfer over to RL money but I plan to use my virtual money to rent an apartment or a house until I can build my own.
Why am I looking for a virtual home? To hang out, invite people over and have a place to go change clothes before events instead of ducking behind a tree when I’m changing. Although the bodies are avatars, they sure are life-like with pubic hair, nipples and everything.I know that sounds crazy but…it’s real, sorta.
The rent I’m looking to pay is about $350 a week which fits nicely along with my reporter salary. I walked into a house today (virtually) and I fell in love. I thought I was dreaming. It is a huge open space with natural wood floors and the master suite on the 2nd floor is the same size as the first floor.
I stood there in the middle of the room and kept staring at the floor thinking, “This is the floor that I imagined for my REAL home.” Maybe as I continue to play, the REAL LIFE manifestations will appear even more quickly.
This Second Life deal perfectly aligns with my positive visualization practice. In SL I am achieving the dreams I always wanted to achieve in RL. I find that most people I meet in SL are doing the same. My co host for the virtual talk show is a magazine publisher in SL. She says that she always wanted to be a publisher in RL but never got the opportunity.
I’m not overlooking the fact that this virtual broadcast experience will boost my own journalism portfolio. Each article that I write for the website and each show I produce will be added to my portfolio. It’s not much of a difference in the time I put into each article I write. They still get posted to a website, just like my most recent article. I think that as this particular brand of journalism becomes more mainstream, this experience will become even more valuable to my career. Think about it..a published writing clip is still a published writing clip.
Look at how blogging has exploded. Every major media outlout has a team of bloggers now when 10 years ago no one respected blogging as a form of journalism. I believe I am on the cutting edge of an innovative form of journalism and I promise to link to the shows I produce for the lifestyle show I am co-hosting so that everyone will see what I’m talking about.
Law of attraction. Positive Visualization. The Science of Getting Rich. They all require you to imagine that you already have the thing you most want. Through Second Life, I can do that.
Who knows what else will become of this.
I’m definately going to stick around to find out…