The last few weeks have been rather hectic. I’ve been quite busy spending many hours cataloging SL blogs, coordinating the blog inspection team, researching unemployment rates, calculating revenue rates, navigating various painful dramas, preparing for several grid hunts, building gift items and rebuilding something underground. It was a seemingly endless stream of work, tasks and trouble.
And then something wonderful happened.
By chance, a friend had purchased a rather unusual object: a gigantic champagne bottle, equipped with a full glass of said fluid. When rezzed, the glass included active bubbles and was truly larger than a bathtub. I admit that in real life, I rarely get a chance to take a bath in champagne, and even more rarely in a gigantic champagne glass.
This particular glass included a dance animation. Spurred on by my alleged friends, I reluctantly sat upon the glass and began to dance.
Immediately, I noticed something horribly wrong: the dances were not exactly my style. I just don’t do sultry dips and swoops in champagne. Fancy prances with knees high around the glass. Suggestive bendy-overs across the lip of the glass. Hrmph.
But I didn’t hit the “Stand Up” button, as I’d usually do in mere microseconds when faced with such a terribly embarrassing SL moment.
Instead, I giggled. A lot.
After a long while, I felt a smile on my face, and realized something had happened. Something wonderful.
I was having fun. Fun with the unreality of Second Life, doing things that are impossible in real life. Things that are silly even in the insane universe that is Second Life. The very things that caused me to explore, learn and be amazed by our nutty virtual world so very long ago.
Somehow I’d managed to find my “reset” button and push it.
The smile stayed.
And a truth was revealed: you gotta have fun. There may be work, trouble or obligations, but none of it is worthwhile unless you’re having fun. This is true not only for Second Life, but even more so in real life. When it stops being fun, it’s time to move on.
But not this time. I’m still here, working. With a smile.
P.S. If you'd like to try out the champagne yourself and see if you can find your own reset, drop by anytime.
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8 comments:
only if you'll dance for me!
/me laughs and nods.
One of my weak points is my public image; not doing silly things (I am afraid that is part of me :-p) but being caught in public bald or with unmatching clothes.
Next time I try to edit a lock and end with my hair turned 180ยบ, I will give myself a good, long look, instead of crying "eeek" and hiding under a table :-)
I'm glad you're rediscovering the sheer fun and joy of being in SL, Armi, especially after the stressful time you've had with the blog list! Plus all the work before that with getting your new main store ready. You're right - it should be fun. In real life sometimes circumstances are beyond our control, so it cannot always be fun, but in SL it should be, I think.
ArminasX, just reading this post brought a huge smile to my face! One of the best things about SL is doing silly, funny things (like riding on a dancing cow or putting on a Groucho Marx facemask and doing Irish jigs, or dancing a whirling dervish, or flying up to 1500 meters and then falling into a pool -- all silly, fun things I've done). Thanks for reminding me to put down my serious work now and then and just do those crazy things it's impossible to do in the physical world -- it so lifts ones spirits to laugh and be silly!!
Alas Zerbino
If you're not having fun here, why bother? Thank you for sharing!
Blowing up the previous tower and working on the new one from scratch using Streamline Moderne/Deco Revival/Futurism was my attempt at a reset.
Maybe I need to do a Reset Into Safe Mode first.
-ls/cm
Generally I have found animations in Second Life to be a bit strange but the other week at the after conference party, I had my first prolonged experience with dance animations and it was lots of fun.
So much so I actually got a glass of wine in first life to have while I danced in Second Life.
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