It is hard to believe that I joined SL almost 2 ½ years ago. I guess its harder for me to believe that I felt I lived there actively for 2 of those years. Never having been an active 'gamer' before and only having owned a computer for 3 ½ years.
With my vision loss and the dissolve of a 15 year marriage, Second Life gave me an outlet away from the isolation of my first life. I had for the first time in 3 years had a social outlet, friends to talk to on a daily basis, an artistic playground, a chance to be someone or something I could not be in my first life. I have met some wonderful people here. There are people more real to me in Second life than some of the people I see every day in my work environment. Some of these SLers have loaned me their eyes when I needed extra help, voices to fill of my void, warm my heart and some who cared enough to come visit me in both worlds.
I met my love here. He has given me the one thing Second Life could not offer me. He gave me a reality, one worth living in.
I don't get much time to come into the world that enriched my life in so many ways. I do regret that. I do miss so chatting with the many people I have come to know and care about. You are often in my thoughts.
My new contact lenses ( a hard gas permeable core centered in a soft gel like scolari lens that vaults over the hyper steepened corneas) have given me the ability to see past the previously inhabilitating glare. They also correct the unstable corneas. Although I still lack depth perception and contrast sensitivity, I see well enough to walk on my own. I still have a large degree of blur, but I see objects in motion better now. I won't ever be able to drive, or just pick up a book and read it without a visual aide (makes reading a menu at a restaurant nearly impossible), but life is too good to me to complain about these minor things.
I move in 3 months to be with the man of my SL dream... my dream turned reality. I have two beautiful, healthy, intelligent children who care for me very much... the eight year old who taught me how to build in SL is now going to be 11 in Sept. It doesn't get better than this.
So that's my life in a nutshell right now. I do have Skype if anyone cares to leave a message, I check it every few days. MaeBest is my name there too. Gosh how I do miss all this, but my children, my love (Zara) and first life first.
Should anyone know of a job opening in Austin Texas... IM ME!Hugs and Pinches.
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