We design our virtual bodies, wear our virtual clothes, do virtual dances in virtual clubs. But the relationships, those are real. Real human souls interacting, emoting, and relating through this clumsy electronic medium. The dance may just be pixels on a screen, but when those pixels touch, it excites me. The words typed in chat linger in my brain. So I come back for more. I stroll through your sim, listen to your music, wear your clothes. I return to this lifeless digital space to be with you. And yeah, it gets messy fast. Because once you transcend all the make believe, what is left is the real deal. Two human beings, physically distant, virtually close, and in spite of all that incongruency, connected. What a strange world.
On Second Thoughts
ramblings on wanderings in virtual spaces