You never walk alone

Five loves to explore, and is a bit of a workaholic. Exploring and working have one thing in common: it is mainly done alone. And since the keyboard of a computer, and the screen of a laptop in particular, is designed for one person only, this being alone with your computer is quite normal. This behavior is partly continued in Second Life. Building is done alone, designing things, programming, it is all done one your own, by yourself.

But there is just that big SL-difference that while building, and while exploring, you meet other people. These people may be total strangers, but also owners or designers of beautiful things, and of course: your friends. You could consider SL as a sort of 3D website, and many people treat is like that, but coming from SL, even the best websites are suddenly terribly flat places, simply absolutely unexciting, in 2D, but even worse: flimsy in the social sense.
Ok, websites serve another goal, being documentary, promotional, blog; and yes, true, this blog is also a website, lol, as is said in SL encountering a paradox.
Five as workaholic always becomes a bit nervous when friends only want to talk a bit. There is always work to do; a blog to write, a flower to create, a script to be written. But every so often Five’s friends, who are very, very patient people, succeed in putting Five down in a chair, or just the back of a chair, and they teach Five to socialize a bit. Because although Five is boasting about the social aspect of SL, and even teaching students the secrets of communication, it is very difficult in this interesting world of Second Life to sit still.

After months of exploration and experiments, Second Life remains new and unexpected.
And be honest: it would be very strange to sit down and socialize too much, when you have chosen to sit alone behind an illuminated screen in a sort of desolate dungeon in real life, isn’t it?
Anyway, the few moments of rest and talking chit-chat’s really are truly marvelous. Small islands of tranquility in a continuous stream of ideas and things Five wants to do or finish.
So this blog is an ode to those friends, who with endless patience and persistence try to curve Five into the social world.

There was DJ Mainakay, quite in the beginning, a lot of friends in the middle, and at the moment Armoe Lipo, Amiryu Hosoi, Amber Ashton, to name the few which are shown in the pictures.
These friends always ask Five during a tête-à-tête, what are you doing Five? Well making pictures for a blog about socializing…..sorry, always doing more than one thing at the same time……..
And aren’t these images nice? Just like people sipping a coffee? Spending an afternoon in a sunny garden, near a pool?

Yes indeed, there are times to explore the sewers of Second Life, times to wonder about the stupidities, the emptiness, fortunately endless more times gazing at the great designs and ideas of all the people walking around in SL, and………tiny bits of warmth…what is it called? Human?

Thx, guys!

Nonetheless, back to work, and fast! (Behind on schedule, talked too much about talking. Sorry, I’m off…)