This post is late, I know.
So it was my dear, dear friend Boni's rez day the other day. Her first. And mine is coming up. I can honestly say I would not be here, in SL, as Helix, doing any of the things I am doing, if it were not for Bonibaru. I came inworld on a whim, inspired by one of her posts. And I definitely stayed because she forced me to go out and--GASP!--meet people.
Sometimes I don't know whether to thank her or curse her for that. Haha.
I've been sort of questioning my SL for the past few weeks or so. Doing a lot of overthinky navel gazing. To use one of my favorite words, indulging in omphaloskepsis. Wondering if a year in fakepixelfairyland was enough. Should I--and I'ma flash my nerd cred here--pull a Bilbo and just walk away, down that road, on my rez day? Could I, even if I wanted to?
I don't know. I do know that Bonibaru is a bright presence in my life, real or second. I made her a giant human egg surrounded by sperm that you wear on your head for her rez day. She's the only person I know who a) when I thought of it, I KNEW would love it and b) would actually wear it.
Here it is, modeled by moi:
She makes me laugh, makes me go out and INTERACT with PEOPLE, makes me explore new places (with amorous velociraptors, no less), she encouraged me to no end when I opened my store, and is just all around fun to hang with.
We'd been tangentially acquainted/at least vaguely aware each other existed since around 2003. But it was in SL that we really became friends. And for that, I am profoundly grateful.
So it was my dear, dear friend Boni's rez day the other day. Her first. And mine is coming up. I can honestly say I would not be here, in SL, as Helix, doing any of the things I am doing, if it were not for Bonibaru. I came inworld on a whim, inspired by one of her posts. And I definitely stayed because she forced me to go out and--GASP!--meet people.
Sometimes I don't know whether to thank her or curse her for that. Haha.
I've been sort of questioning my SL for the past few weeks or so. Doing a lot of overthinky navel gazing. To use one of my favorite words, indulging in omphaloskepsis. Wondering if a year in fakepixelfairyland was enough. Should I--and I'ma flash my nerd cred here--pull a Bilbo and just walk away, down that road, on my rez day? Could I, even if I wanted to?
I don't know. I do know that Bonibaru is a bright presence in my life, real or second. I made her a giant human egg surrounded by sperm that you wear on your head for her rez day. She's the only person I know who a) when I thought of it, I KNEW would love it and b) would actually wear it.
Here it is, modeled by moi:
She makes me laugh, makes me go out and INTERACT with PEOPLE, makes me explore new places (with amorous velociraptors, no less), she encouraged me to no end when I opened my store, and is just all around fun to hang with.
We'd been tangentially acquainted/at least vaguely aware each other existed since around 2003. But it was in SL that we really became friends. And for that, I am profoundly grateful.
1 comments:
bonibaru said...
I love you too <3 you are the brightest bright spot in my second life. If you leave, I will sing that OMD song from that 80s brat pack movie as you trot off into the sunset, and I will feel sad but I will still gtalk you and assorted other means of communication. And I will tell the velociraptor you said goodbye.
I'ma stick around a while more; I want to see if year two is any different from year one. What fresh hell awaits (LOL)