does SL stress you out?

Ummm .. no.

Luckily I managed to satisfy my "mathematics" distribution requirement with a couple of statistics classes. I learned enough about calculus as a senior in high school to understand that tangling with that shark again would only result in a bloody mess.

You could take Calc in High School? Hmmm....probably wouldn't have had room, with 2 years each of algebra and geometry........

I think I spent most of high school at the mall. What was funny was that my teachers always believed me when I told them that I was researching at the University library....

I know, I'm always dodging my students at the mall. i wish I could create a RL Alt for such occasions.

You ditch your OWN classes? I wish you'd been MY teacher back then, LOL.

I bought a rowing machine last year and sat on the couch watching televised sports.

You could take Calc in High School? Hmmm....probably wouldn't have had room, with 2 years each of algebra and geometry........

I know, I'm always dodging my students at the mall. i wish I could create a RL Alt for such occasions.

My mind is agog at the vision of empty classrooms across the land...all the students AND the faculty are out looking through the sale racks at Dillards and Macys.

Commercialism...has won.

Seems to me there are two types of people who log into SL, firstly those who use it as a form of recreation, watching TV, listening to music, surfing the net. For those people SL offers a relief from the stresses of work and life in RL. Secondly there are those who use it as a form of income. That income supports or forms their main source of income in RL. For this group there is probably little recreational value to be had from logging into SL. Like any sales job in RL there will be stresses associated with their activities in SL (whatever that may be); sales = income.

My advice (for what it's worth) would be to take a break in just the same way you take a break from RL work. It's so easy to log in every day and before you know it you're effectively working every day. How would you feel if you went in to work in RL every day..stressed and knackered. Log into SL every day - particularly if you use SL as a form of income, and you're going to end up..stressed and knackered.

Take break..watch TV..go jogging..get pissed..whatever..just don't log in!!

Perre

(Perre Anatine is not a professional physicologist, also please note his advice is usually more effective when accompanied by liberal doses of alcahol (note however alcahol does increase blood pressure...but it is more fun than stress - at least untill the following morning))

Yes of course it can be. My cure for that is simply taking a break for a few days.

The only reason I was at the mall was because it was an air conditioned place to ditch school, and we didn't have to buy anything, like we would have had to do, had we gone to Denny's. My weekly allowance was too small for crass commercial spending.

awww...I was teasing Brenda. ALL kids ditch a class now and then and head for the mall. Don't they?

I love Calc and Differential Equations! Its like Star Trek in numbers to me.

I see math equations when I drive my car..force vectors, centrifugal forces..though as I get older it is more a general form than the actual equations.

Gee, I though everybody did this!

I was only at the Mall because someone snitched and told me that was where I'd find Oryx.

Curses! Foiled again!

I think that the OP should "ditch" SL for a while... go play hookey while it's still sunny!

Go to the Mall or for a ride with Dnali

one of the biggest mistakes I made in SL to date.
Why?
The costume I made was made by another (more popular than me) resident about 2 weeks earlier. The guy had contacted me in less than 3 hours of posting my new release to let me know that he was assuming I'd copied him. Then another IM, that s/he knows alot of people in SL and that regardless of if s/he said anything or not, all of Second Life is going to think I'm a copy and a cheat. By the time I was online for the day, I had a small pile of IMs from him making me feel like if I didn't take down my hard work immediately, there would be horrible consequences. ...... But NOW in the past week, BOTH of the things I've made, I literally found something similar or just like them at other more popular stores within the same day of completing them and it has made my week horrible.

And I betrayed my love of math in the end and fell in love with art even more and graduated in Art History and I can bore someone to death with more art speak than anyone I know.

Yes, we are using balloons to travel around the sims of Serenade now..very relaxing.

And I betrayed my love of math in the end and fell in love with art even more and graduated in Art History and I can bore someone to death with more art speak than anyone I know.

Verbiage at 4 paces..I'm deadly.

Wow Sae, that is indeed a nightmare scenario I can't even imagine how awful that made you feel.



Ahh...a woman after my own heart! One of my degrees is in Art History and my friends will accompany me to the museums only to have their eyes glaze over with the deluge of info I throw at them *sigh*. I can't help it....it's art!

~Ari

Personally, I've found myself VERY stressed out over SL stuff in the past.

Here's one example

I worked SUPER hard for days on a costume. Taking the care to match up seams and make sure all the fabric pieces I used, the fabrics looked the same and such. I went above and beyond for this one avatar, wanting it to do good. It did do good. It was overnight, one of the biggest mistakes I made in SL to date.
Why?
The costume I made was made by another (more popular than me) resident about 2 weeks earlier. The guy had contacted me in less than 3 hours of posting my new release to let me know that he was assuming I'd copied him. Then another IM, that s/he knows alot of people in SL and that regardless of if s/he said anything or not, all of Second Life is going to think I'm a copy and a cheat. By the time I was online for the day, I had a small pile of IMs from him making me feel like if I didn't take down my hard work immediately, there would be horrible consequences. We discussed how if I was copying anyone, it was the makers of the TV show that I made the character from, but no matter what I said and what s/he said, I still felt that strange..animosity. This was a person that I respected and LOVED their things. This occasion, I stood up for myself and kept the release anyway. It has sold alot and I'm glad about that, but there isn't many days that go by that I don't think of that situation. Everytime I see anything by this guy, I get a little clench in my gut.
Anyways, since then, this past week specifically, I have made many things only to go somewhere else and see something similar or the same. This is heart breaking to me because I make things to share with the community, and ever since the above incident took place, I refuse to release anything that I've seen elsewhere..even if I was finished before I found the place with something similar. It stressed me out so bad, I literally cried in RL, and I do not want this again. But NOW in the past week, BOTH of the things I've made, I literally found something similar or just like them at other more popular stores within the same day of completing them and it has made my week horrible.

Go do some RL stuff.

Buy yourself some mangoes or something nice.

Come sit in the grotto on my beach, sweetie ...

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@ being propositioned by men wearing nothing but a wooden spoon, when is someone going to make the 'point and vomit' animation/gesture? Please? I'd personally like a point and laugh one ...

That happens all the time, finding it amusing is a lot less hassle.

I don't find SL stressful any more. Are you surrounded by people who are making you feel bad? There's a solution to that one, even if you don't really want to do it then removing such people from your life makes you feel much better in the long run.