I see that sort of potential with the Crown and C2P. I just can’t be on SL during the times when there are events due to work.

Now, with my laptop off in the shop, there is a change that is much harder as it makes it more difficult to sync up. But even still, there is a certain direction and path I wish to take, and a certain someone I want to be on that path with. So, despite the challenge, and change in the day to day, there is something to keep focus upon in the long run.

Lives have their own direction and at times you find your direction or placement is the same as someone elses, and they end up intersecting. Then your or their lives shift (whether because of factors that can be controlled or just circumstances), and it’s harder to stay in the same spaces as the people you used to know: Your priorities no longer match, your timing is out, or you simply change so much that there’s hardly anything in common anymore. Yes it’s sad but it’s almost inevitable too – it takes a lot of work and commitment to retain friendships in the face of such constant change.

My best friend in RL just happens to have followed the same life pattern as me for the last decade: We went to the same uni, got involved in the same pass-times, got pregnant at the same time, etc. These similarities have kept us bonded to each other strongly enough that even though she’s left the country now we still try hard to stay in touch, but it’s not easy: Even when things line up nicely in that way, it still takes a lot of effort to keep the friendship alive. But it’s worth it for me, and as long as it’s worth it for her too we’ll fight to keep it alive: The fact that we both get so much out of it is key.

Would changing the terrain texture on Angel Square be one of these changes? The sand we have now is starting to send my eyes funny… 0.o

I think back to how much has changed over the last two years, and if you really think about it – everything has. Hardly anything is the same as to what it was early last year and in some respects this makes me a little sad – because things were pretty awesome then. But as you said, people and things change and nothing can remain the same forever.

I think it’s more a case of looking to the future now, and embracing the changes and new people that enter our Second Lives for the better. x