Changes

Wow, so it has been a very long time since I have been here. Blogging again after so long is almost like being unwrapped from a full body cast, head to toe.

The things I am going to be writing about are not always going to be about surviving traumatic events and what happened to me and others but, I am going to be writing about these things.

I have a story in mind. This story is one that you will have you coming back to my blog for more, a story about a fantasy life that has been lived out in a fantasy world. It has been lived out in a virtual world so it is more non-fiction than fiction but then again, it has been lived in virtual reality so; make up your own mind. Is a virtual life fiction or non-fiction? Although the characters are virtual there are real people putting the action, emotion and communication behind the characters.

The stories are based on real people and their experiences in a virtual world called Second Life. You may have heard of it. I don’t want to go into the psychological views because there are many opinions out there on virtual lives. Each person that experiences and keeps going back has their own reasons. Some are there because they are disabled in real life and in a virtual world they can walk, fly, do almost anything and be almost anything. Some have illnesses that make it almost impossible for them to live life to the fullest it was meant to be lived but they can in a virtual world.

Everyone has their own opinion, even doctors but until you live someone else’s life, even the doctors have no right to dictate what is better for a person than that person themselves. And again, that is an opinion, my opinion and isn’t the world full of opinions? So many, that the world has become scary with them. I am not saying that if a doctor tells you that you need medication that you don’t have to listen to them; I am only saying that in my own experience, this virtual world has brought life to me that I could not find anywhere else in this world.

Let me give you an example. A woman sits alone, sad and lonely. She has very few friends and her family does not live in the same town. She has no one to talk to most of the time or share a little time with where someone is holding her, cuddling with her, telling her she is beautiful, sharing things that they love doing together. But, that person can go online into a virtual world and share those moments with someone. It is not physically real but it is emotionally real and psychologists have proven that the effects mentally can be the same and most of all comforting. Some say it is just putting a band aid on real life but for some, there is no source of a real life cure to what ails them.

For some, it is the only way that they are ever going to get to feel those feelings that they long for. To hear someone tell them that they are perfect and beautiful or to have someone to do things with that they have in common. That can be impossible for some in life.

So, there is the future for my blog in black and white. Come back for more if you like. I still desire to entice you and mystify you, keep you coming back for more.

Sincerely,

Anne Thompson, still surviving.