What surprises you most in-world?

Ah, I always set my settings to Mid-day, Thanks. I still look better with the face light and never have known my face light to cause lag. Their are many things that causes lag and a face light is not up in the top ten!

How do you measure that?

I definitely relate what really surprised me was my friends and that wonderful people do exist at least in SL. Not saying all are, some are down right odd and I am pretty odd myself so it takes a lot for me to call someone odd.
Yet sometimes I wonder if my real life negative views of reality also seeps over to SL.
Yet in spite of that I have found some wonderful things too.
Yet most of time SL is either incredibly laggy, gray universe with no people, zombies.
When I was exploring sexual side briefly I realized it can be as boring and as stupid as rl sex.
I have experienced a lot of wild things in past but I must confess sex especially virtually in Second life I think I just don't really get it other then in brief hormonal charged moments, rest of time it just doesn't make sense to me.
Although sometimes I wish I had pose balls for me and my real life boyfriend in my first life but
it would hard to get him to accept the pop up screens there.
I don't get the romantic syrupy things one would write in one's picks either, nor see myself personally apart of that ever.
Yet I have more friends in SL that spent time helping me learn everything from Math to creating that I deeply appreciate, I love my time with several, especially when we make puns and humor about my grumpy moods.
They help me how to laugh at myself when I am feeling very grumpy.
Often are not judgmental when I am complaining about how I can't find the cancel account button for first life.

And that for me, is the beautiful thing about SL.
Embrace these people and keep them close to your heart.
FaTeke

"So shines a good deed in a weary world."
Willy Wonka

Dunno about what surprises me the most but this thread susprised me a lot. I was gonna come in here and post about how awesome the mainland is despite what a lot of people say. Or how easy it is to start a small business and watch it grow into a real way to make a living. Or how resilient the SL economy has been even in the face of trouble in the real world. Or how amazing it is that people from massively different cultures/countries/backgrounds can all come together and form a huge, thriving community. But when I got into the thread it was just a bunch of people whining about everyone else and it really bummed me out so now I don't know what to post.

Surprise! Reality is seen different depending on the person behind the avatar.
As a friend often says "Reality is construct of one's mind."

I'm surprised......