Despite the rampant hatred on secondlife there are a couple of perks that somehow make all the bullshit you have to deal with on a regular basis worth the trouble. Meeting new people who don't already have some biased opinion or prejudice against me is getting harder and harder these days, but I guess that is just the price I pay for not pussing out and making an alt to hide behind. The blog isn't helping these matters, but unlike most of the avitars shuffling around with their thumbs stuck up their asses, I have something to say. Now...if I could just remember what that was again...
Oh, yeah.. friendships on secondlife are one of the reasons people play this shit so much. Now, some people like to treat it like a popularity contest, racking up as many followers for their agenda as they possibly can. I don't buy into clans (two-faced, fake people who are more interested in numbers than the individual). I don't buy into the whole pretend you have a perfect family and let's all live together and make each other miserable slifestyle. I'm not even a social person...so why the fuck am I on this game? To make you all hate me? no. To make the best damn sl blog ever? no. To get rich? definitely not. I'm on here for the same reason most of you probably are...to escape the horror that is rl. And you can all expose how awful my real life is, exaggerate and manipulate my words, twist them around into something that makes you feel better about your own sad excuse for an existence, but the point you seem to be missing is that it doesn't really bother me to have it out there. I tell people this shit for a reason you know.... and it's not because I want to hide it. I don't claim to be the coolest, hardest, baddest ass troll there is out there. I'm human; yes, I have emotions, and they are not always pretty. I bleed just like you do contrary to popular belief.
But...back to the subject of friendship...I think a better word for friendship on secondlife would be betrayal. Everyone on this game is concerned with one thing, themselves. They aren't trying to be good friends; in most cases they are using you for one thing or another. Extraction of information in some instances.. in others they just want to vent to you like a disposable barf bag on an airplane ride. Some friends claim they care, but they really just want to keep you as backup in case they break up with their significant other. Or they will use you to fill the void when that person isn't on. Some friends band together because they feel strength in numbers and want to oppress a group or individual. The one certainty in all friendships is that they come to an end eventually.
People of secondlife move through their virtual lives at an accelerated rate when compared to those in the real world. Where instant gratification is king and selfish ambition queen, many cycle through friends and relationships like a homeless person at an all you can eat buffet.
So, try to think about what you are throwing away the next time you click remove. Try to think about what you mean to someone else and not what they mean to you. Try to consider the possibility that the virtual world does not revolve around you and your self-righteous agenda.
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