Be What You Wanna Be..Do What You Wanna Do!

Um, um, um...boy, I tell you! SecondLife really does open your eyes to the personalities and mentalities of people. You can really tell a lot about them based on what they say and their behaviors and judge them STRICTLY on that because you can't TOTALLY judge them by appearance! Everybody in Second Life is rich and beutiful! And that in itself is a gift and a curse. First, I will explain why its a gift, then elaborate on why its a curse.

The Gift

The whole beauty of Second Life is that you can be what you wanna be, look how you want to look, and have everything you cannot have in you real life. You don't have to worry that you haven't lost those ten pounds you been dying to lose, you just reduce your body fat or thicnkess and VOILA! If your nose is too wide, trim it down with JUST the click or two of your mouse. No agonizing weeks of recovery, bandaged face like mummy, or bruising! Ass like a pancake? Well, get that pretty, round brown the gym ain't doing for you in real life and you cannot afford to got to Bzrazil to get and watch how fast your milkshake will bring ALL the boys to the yard! You can be Caucasian, African- American, Latin, Asian, Indian, or heck, even Avatar Blue! And someone will love you just like that! That's so beautiful! Real life is not like that. You cannot telelport to where someone likes people who dress like cats and find that speacial someone. That is something you have to search high and low for and fear public ridicule. In Second Life, we pass people like that every where we go and keep going. We don't stop and stare, make comments in local chat (in real life it would be aloud), we just let people be!
Work at McDonald's under a crappy boss making minimum wage? Well, not in Second Life! You don't have to work for a damn soul! You can definitely be your own boss, chose what job you want if you do decide to work for someone else, set your own hours, and in most cases demand the salary you deserve.
Live in public housing or stuck with the parents? Heck no! Not in Second Life! You can own as many houses as you want, as much land as you want, and live on a beautiful, pollution free piece of property where the sun is always shining and the water is always blue!
Ride the bus? Walking? Stuck on the train? Have an awful car? Have a car with even more awful car payments? Well, in Second Life, you can have a Bentley, Beemer AND a Benz! I should know; I have an Aston Martin, a Ducati, a Challenger, and a few choppers. And in real life? Well, lets just say the brakes on my car haven't failed so I guess it won't be recalled and I am stuck with it! Okay, let me not be ungreatful, its a good, reliable car and its in great condition but it ain't an Aston Martin and I wouldn't buy it in Second Life!
Let me not start on clothes and jewels...oy, vey! In Second Life every married woman I have seen has at least 4 or 5 carats rings from the likes of JCNY, rocks over a thousand linden a pop Stiletto Moody's, sports six hundred dollar outfits from stores like Samahi Coture and Deetalez, and has 200 linden hairstyles from places such as Analog Dog. I am single but trust I have lots of bling and rock some rocks! I am usually in the best six inch heels lindens can buy and I am red carpet ready without one hair our of place! I would not be caught dead in freebie (in real life I guess that would equate to WalMart, KMart, Beall's..etc.) clothes, shoes, or jewels. I would not rezz somewhere like a Help Island (that's equivalent to being homeless) because I have a beautiful piece of property I bust my pixelized ass to keep and its hot! And oh, I have that dream job I would kill for in real life and I make a pretty decent salary considering. That's the utter beauty of it all! You can have it all and most of us make sure we do!

The Curse

Alas, we reach the curse...as wonderful as the world of Second Life is, it has its downs. The reason I was even prompted to write this entry was due to a conference that came up form a person, and this time she/he will remain nameless because frankly, I feel sorry for said individual. I will explain why now. The conference started off with a random fat girl joke. Now I am SURE someone, not excluding me, in that conference is a fat girl in real life. And The said person having children, I am sure they/their significant other may have picked up some weight as a result. I highly doubt they remained all tight like a virgin in any way, shape or form, no pun intended. Yet, every one laughed like it wasn't them they were bashing and like said person really has a leg to stand on with no first life picture to prove it! See, some Second Lifers get really dilussional and are under the bad impression they are actually their avatars. No, you aren't! We are all here to escape from reality. And no matter how much shit 1 may talk, you don't like SHIT like that avatar! Flat, six pack abs, flawless skin, perfect white teeth my ass! Not sitting behind a computer all day or night! You would have your ass on a runway and damn sure wouldn't have a moment to spare five to twelve hours on Second Life! And then they talk about how people on Second Life have no life...pretty much, in a nutshell. But just think about it, Einstein, you would have to be logged in as much as they people you bash are to know that!
And really, why do you care WHAT someone's first life looks like anyway? Were you trying to date him? Were you trying to her new BFF, Paris (Paris Hilton)? You're just wanting to see how flawed they are in real life so you can bash them about that because you're jealous of a bunch of 3D pixels beautifully made that has more than you do! Shame! You came to Second Life to escape all that only to repeat the same shit in that life too! Really? Who does that? Oh, YOU do that, that's who! A lot of people do it!
And its a shame 1 has to be leery of being criticized and judged and fear someone will say, "He/she don't look shit like their avatar?"! *Noted sarcasm* Because you know YOU do look JUST LIKE YOURS, right! They don't post first life pictures for this very reason! A person can't even be confident about how they look because some unhappy person on the other side of the screen is ready to pick them apart for that! And solely for that! And its sad. I find it sad that one cannot accept a person based on their personality and has to see them only to ruin their fantasy because that person is not their type. Even if you hadn't plan to meet them, it can ruin what could have been a beautiful thing. And the whole purpose of Second Life is to live a better way than your first life. Without being judged for being what someone may consider too poor, too fat, too skinny, too dark, etc.! Second Life is the escape but some ignorant people are still trapped. And its a shame they will never understand that true beauty is more than skin deep. They need a third life to get over their Second!