Second Life. I read about the first person to make a million dollars in a virtual world. And the million was actual real american dollars. In conversation a friend asked me some esoteric existential blah blah about maybe second life is real and this is a made up life. While I could see people getting fully engrossed in a virtual world some day in the future, I still think there is a real world line people are unable to cross. Ironically, it’s the things that hold us back in real life, that would stand in the way of a second life. A real second life. It’s true that some people live as very different creatures in their make believe worlds. Some are famous or rich or talented where in the real world they see themselves as unfairly limited perhaps. But this is an illusion, both the success and the failure are just constructs of the person’s own self view perception of reality. Until otherwise disproved, it is always what you are committed to that shows up in your general life. This of course does not refer to the constant variables outside your sphere of influence, but it could be argued by some that everything in your life is a result of your will.
Personally I’m not willing to go that far. I would hope there is some universal checks and balances otherwise we would all soon be isolated into oblivion. One day when everything we want is within mind’s reach, we will be, encased in our own personal paradise. Until then, our fears on either side of this life will dictate our results. That lady made her first million in Second Life, and now she is working on her first million in real life. I’m going to bed to 3rd life to dream about my million.
Tags: fear, real world, secondlife
