It's Been A fun Ride, Goodbye

This will be my last post in this or any other forum dealing with Second Life. Like so many others but for other reasons I have decided I have had enough of Second Life and its time to focus back on my first life. I came to Second Life and was so impressed at the time with the framework of it and the people who make it what it is.

After doing the DJ thing with some of the bigger clubs in SL I found my calling in building prefab nightclubs and I have tried to give people in Second Life good support and products.

In time though I have found people in Second Life to be snakes in the grass so to speak. Not everyone but at least a lot of the people I run into. People try to take advantage of you in every way they can, spread lies and are dishonest.
I have fought and fought to protect my good name over and over again but I am tired…
I have been in Second Life for over a year and I am just tired.

I find a lot of people to be so fake in real life and I thought Second Life would be different. I guess I put my hopes to high.

Recently I have had somebody attempting to run my name into the ground by making false claims. Which anyone who knows me, knows that I am not like how they have claimed but it’s the principle behind it all that bothers me most. It seems the more successful you are in Second Life the more you are hated for no reason at all.

I am the type of person even in real life that tends to keep to him self and finds himself deep into his art. I am a real life tattoo artist and I also do digital art as well but since I have been in SL I have found that I have floated from these things that keep my soul burning into this black hole of nothing. It’s my art that keeps me alive, that makes my mind run into endless dreams that lets me bring out who I am inside. So many people put on fake faces and never really truly know who they are. I guess we all wear a face at times in our lives. I am sure Second Life has a lot of good people in it, but for some reason I just never found most of them. But everyone has their own opinion of Second Life which is what makes Second Life what it is.

My dad passed away suddenly a few weeks past and it took a bigger toll on me then even I thought it would. I have just found without going into a lot of detail that its time for me to leave this digital world we call Second Life. I find myself being short with people and wanting to just hide in a dark room.

I am now dealing with my own real life health issues and I am just tired. I do not want to get into it all but I am getting older and feeling it I guess. Second Life has been a great way to help support my family with the extra money I make outside of my real life job but I am just tired…

VooDoo DESIGNS will continue to exist however the VIP group will be dismantled this week and messages will only be checked once a month. All production has stopped and will not be resumed. VooDoo DESIGNS by VooDoo Bamboo is done.
All products will still be there but that’s it. The land will be paid for monthly and that’s about it.

It’s time for me to retreat back to my real life artwork and my music. They are the two things that keep me sane in this messed up world we live in today.

I want to thank everyone who has supported me through time here in Second Life.
To those who did get to know me, take care of yourselves.

I leave you all with these 3…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4gGdfLC6sc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BaEX-12BwQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhTMhJGfyAA

Goodbye, Logging out...
~VooDoo Bamboo

Wow I wouldn`t have expected you to be one to leave.

Sorry about your dad, death is hard. Best of luck..... But something tells me you`ll be back someday.

Voodoo........I don't know you at all. I'm not even sure I've ever responded to one of your threads. But, man, I've sure enjoyed your input on so many subjects. Damn, it's a shame to see you leave. Now I wish I had seeked you out in SL.

Take care, friend...........and if you do come back please search for me. I'd love a second chance to get to know you. And (from the heart)...........GOOD LUCK.

Look after yourself mate.

Goodbye VooDoo. It's sad to see you go, but I know the loss of a loved one is a difficult thing to deal with. This sounds like a good time to find comfort and solace with your family. I wish you well, and hope the life changes you are making work out for the best.

Where the Caterpillar sees the end of the world, the Master sees a Butterfly.


Good luck to you in all of your future travels.

all teary-eyed from the videos

but gee, even tho i've only been in sl a short while, those rough parts ARE the worse

and even tho i try to tell myself is doesn't matter cuz it's sl the truth is that it does matter.

and yeah, what happens in sl does affect my rl

i think it matters to everyone whether they admit it or not

my mom and dad both died in recent years and i swear - even tho i am a grown-up, it made me feel like an orphan - i felt lost for lack of a better word

take care and fare thee well

We always think that SL doesn't really matter because it's always just pixels on the screen but the reality is there are real people with real emotions behind those pixels.

I wish you the best VooDoo.

I wish you well mate.

Sorry to hear about your Dad; that is a huge thing to deal with and I'm glad you are doing what you need to deal with it.

Good luck.

Take care, VooDoo. Condolences and prayers for you.

Voodoo, i understand totally, having walked the same path..

No door is ever closed completely or should be, though it is not my place to suggest your direction.

This is a post i wrote in a different forum recently..

"fate has no reason or schedule...

Is very rare i venture here now. and that today i choose to , fate decided the post i should look at first, was mom, and it related directly, because too, my mother left in August 2006. I can give my pennyworth: I muse that at about the same time as my mother died, many of those folks she knew, those she passed on the street, a whole generation, thousands of people across the world were reaching the same point. A year on nearly, perhaps they are gone too..
Your mom, My mom.... and so many more.
We have no control of that.. we cannot change it.. we cannot prevent it.. neither time or fate allows us that.
Its hard to accept that we cannot live forever.. but that is the way it should be..
Stars die.. They will all die too.. ive no wish to see the last star go dark.

What does one do? cultivate the memories.. collate stuff.. write things down , put the photographs together.. make sure those things that now mean so much to one, but perhaps did not at the time they happened, are recorded,dated, framed.

Indelible imprints..

one was here... You, your mom, your dad.. your family..

They made you. its only right and natural that you want to fuel those memories and are sad that what has been, is done.. gone now..

Ones parents were pillars one leaned on.. always there.. always had the answers..

One becomes the pillar... ones mom , ones dad, ones family.. give one the ability..to make sure that what they treasured.. would carry on after they had gone..

I sense in your post.. the success of that."



i get the same feelings from your post Voodoo, be well, take care.

I'm sorry for your loss and having been through the same thing,I can only advise that we all have to find our own way to deal with losing a parent. No matter how old we are, we'll always be their child. Take time for yourself, do what brings comfort to you and your family. It's okay to be sad at times, you miss your Dad and feeling grief is all part of life. For me , I also remembered the good times and the silly times, like when a dragonfly flew into my Dad's mouth coming down a steep hillside. He was panting from the climb down and whoosh flew the bug. To this day I can remember my Dad standing there almost gagging and trying to spit out the dragonfly. I couldn't help since I was holding onto to a sapling to keep me upright while I was laughing so hard. My brother and uncle weren't in better shape than I was. My Dad finally swallowed the bug. Yes, he did, I was there and witnessed it. Good thing that it was a small dragonfly.


Voodoo, don't lose the laughter. Simplifying your life now is right for you. Though we have never met, I wish you and your family well.

Sorry to see you go but thankful I will now stop getting spammed with group invites for some unknown establishment

Voodoo, sorry for your loss.
Lost my second parent back in Feb. We all handle grief our own way.
It does get better.
I hope it does for you soon.
Good luck.

Can I have your stuff?

Good Luck to you in your rl and hope all does well with you. Some times its better to go back to RL then be here. If one has to deal with abusive people in this game. For some experation of how one does his art on SL is a extention of the passion in RL. Only a rare few does it well..............Good Luck to you Voodoo

Usagi

Thanks Icony for this. I lost my mother in Feb 07, sim neighbors lost their dads at around the same time. SL will always be linked to these experiences in my mind; the shared discovery of grief and loss and becoming strangely bare in the world when the their love that surrounded you all your life goes with them. Now my SL/RL partner is with his mum as she is dying. This post is so helpful.

"I find a lot of people to be so fake in real life and I thought Second Life would be different. I guess I put my hopes to high."



I thought the same thing, well hoped, when I came to SL and unfortunately it seems to be quite the opposite. SL is a game, a psychological experiment to alot of people and they push and push beyond the limits of what they would do irl. I'm not talking about making an avatar that looks nothing like you irl, I'm talking about the people who lie, cheat, and are deceptive to others, especially with their alts. I have ran across too many people who do whatever they can to mess with peoples heads only to make them feel better about themselves irl. When I first started in SL almost 3 yrs ago, there was only about 2000 people on at a time and there was an actual sense of community, ever since LL decided to make it so that anyone can make an acct for free with no verification, that sense of community has gone straight downhill.

It's pretty sad really that the good people get pushed out by the idiots who could care less about the creative spirit that SL is and instead only care about how many people they can screw over.

I don't know you but I wish you well on your journey.

Voodoo, i dunno why you give a shit what ANYONE else thinks. but i'm sorry you've been hurt and i wish you well.

if you come back, even as an alt, look me up. there are a lot of good people who don't want ANYTHING from you but conversation and silly fun. find those people, and i'm sure your future experiences will be different.

best of luck.

My deepest condolences on the loss of your father.
I Do understand the need to Withdraw, SL can Seem terribly trivial after such a RL Loss, So can a lot of other things RL. VooDoo, make a point of Not Withdrawing Too far. Your father would have wanted you to continue living, he never expected your life to End with his.

Best Wishes, and best of luck, You will be Missed.

Angel.

As far as conduct in SL is concerned, I have to agree almost completely with VooDoo. It's as if the creators of this world forgot some simple truths hundreds, if not thousands, of years old.
Aristotle was one of the first to think about an environment in which everyone could be potentially anonymous...then DeToqueville took a stab at it, too.
Simply put, if you had to be here in an atmosphere of full disclosure - not hiding behind an alt, not running around as a completely anonymous figure - the SL would be a stunningly...and I mean STUNNINGLY more well-behaved place.
Greifers are simply the most drastic, and visible, result of this atmosphere of permissive anonymity. They take the situation to its solipsistic extreme. But, by and large, MOST of the inhabitants of SL soon discover that there's really NO way for anyone else in-world to know anything about them IRL.
That only *seems* like a good thing. Spend just five minutes thinking about it...or read THIS:

http://blogs.zdnet.com/keen/?p=120

Age veriication, demanding payment info to be on file for ALL accounts, and a more determined customer service response from LL might keep folks like VooDoo around...and help knock down the number of *sshats and blingtards that make life less-than-worth-living in this environment.

So...VooDoo...you're not alone in your estimation of the place. I, and a number of my friends share it, too. It's even driven away one of my closest friends - although I still hold out hope that he'll return, eventually. Be happy, VooDoo...this place of smoke and mirrors isn't worth getting twisted up over...at least until a LOT more people realize that being completely anonymous ain't really the great thing it's cracked up to be.

Permissive anonymity? That sounds cool.

Sorry for your loss Voodoo. And it's a shame SL is losing a good builder. But let's face it, RL is in the end more important.

I don't really know you at all sweetie but do believe I may have bought some land you had. I just want to thank you now before you go, for our now lovely little park in SL away from the RL I've turned it into. Not very big, 518 but it's just enough to look up at the Second Life moon and stars, sunrise or sunset, and wonder what my folks are up to today, just as in RL. I personally do love the creative potential offered for so many fine artist and venues SL can offer, I have made some special new friends also, and have found a few bad like everyone I suppose. I hate to see anyone get burned or burned out. I can't say missing my parents has gotten any better for me, for years later is still feels quit fresh, but my direction has improved though. When they first crossed over leaving this earthly path, I felt as a cork with no line attached simply wildly bobbing about in the sea of unknown life being swept to and fro never reaching any shore, with no purpose my artistic inspiration was shattered for a long while. I feel the depth of your pain, understand it, so please know like so many can related and further wish you healing of both heart and spirit. I can tell you this I am sure my dad has already taken your's fishing as they all smile down on us until we all meet once again forever never to part.
Peace and love be with you in all your adventures, in SL & RL. I hope with all you have done and those you have touched for the good you simply are unaware of, you return and grace SL with your gifts once more just as I am so sure you do in RL. Though a few bad apples can spoil a barrel, once they are quickly identified and removed the remaining barrel is quit sweet
Blessings

So sorry to hear about your loss.

coco