Spring is in the Air

I've been away from SL for a bit. I've been lucky if I'm in more than 2X a week. A lot has been going on in my RL and frankly, I really needed the break. I always come in to attend Steelhead town meetings on Tuesdays and tend to Steelhead things such as building the new Embassy in Winterfell...
As I stated in my last post, I had become disillusioned and disappointed of a sorts inworld. We grow as our virtual selves, and creatively I felt empty, drained and unproductive. My SL started to feel like a shell of itself. I have been enjoying being in Aion with my RL husband and best friends, but I realized that I really missed my friends in SL too...And they told me that they have been missing me a lot as well, which truly touched me...Even my buddy Newbe has returned to SL with a new outlook after a long hiatus. Bit by bit, I have been making small steps towards coming back and even felt inspired to create this:It is spring after all. A time of new things. Change in so many ways. I can feel it...I'll be back.

Transformation & Transcending

Bettina Tizzy decided to cease posting on her NPIRL blog yesterday. It was always one of my faves because being an explorer like I am, I enjoyed visiting a lot of the places she discussed. It was also a great showcase of the imaginations of SL's content creators. She also gave me the opportunity to participate in the Rezzable Garden of NPIRL Delights last year. I know I was thrilled to be among some of the most creative folks on the Grid. She has said that she will continue to tweet what she finds and the inworld groups themselves are not disbanding. She has been busy in RL and I also get the feeling that she is working on something else great.

I can absolutely understand the feeling of wishing to move on to something else in a way. Blogging and keeping up with the social media of SL in addition to your RL can be demanding. I know that my friend and virtual sis-in-law Zoe Connolly recently did the same, deTwittering and dePlurking and unblogging. I do believe there is a point that one has to make a choice as to how much they wish to manage their time on SL-related activities, even if it means leaving SL altogether like Eshi did recently.

SL--and virtual worlds in general--are meant to be a complement to one's RL. We change. Our needs and wants, both inworld and out, do too. We transform and sometimes transcend them. And there is nothing wrong with that. I wish much luck for all three of them in their future endeavors, and I'm sure it's not the last any of us will hear from them.