It’s been one of those days… thanks to certain psychos. But I took a nice trip to the cinema with my girlfriend to watch Scott Pilgrim (insanely bizarre but really rather good) and then I came back here and she and I sat on my couch. She’s aware of all the drama going on. She never used SL until the last couple of weeks or so. She’s created an avie so she could have a look around and understand why I love it so much. When we were sitting in here tonight she said,

“Even after all this crap, you still love Second Life?”

“Yeh, I do.”

“Why?”

So we grabbed the laptop, logged in and I showed her the reason I love it. Creativity.

We visited some beautiful places. I showed her my favourite ones and also a place I found out about when I was reading Honour McMillan’s Blog today, some stunning floating isles.

Five reasons I will always love Second Life:-

1 – Unrivalled potential to collaborate with other creatives/singers/artists/builders from the other side of the world.

2 – Some amazing people. For every complete nut case in world, if you spend the time, you will find someone incredible.

3 – Spoken word. There are loads of great spoken word events in Second Life and these offer an opportunity for those who might not otherwise have the confidence or ability, to perform their work.

4 – Where else can you literally walk through someone’s imagination? Really?

5 – Creative expression. This is a user created world limited only by imagination. For me, the fact that the only limit is imagination (as opposed to creative being limited by budget, or feasibility or even materials etc) means that SL sums up creativity.

I still love Second Life. And I love sharing it with my girlfriend too

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