Reflections on the Written/NonWritten Word

When you been on sl for a while you start to realise the power that words have, especially the typed word where there is no verbal communication. Once it is typed it is there, just like the spoken word, never to be taken back.

You try to interpret not just the literal word but the context in which they may have been said/are being said at the time.

Over time you build up a mental picture of the person you are talking to and you use that in your understanding of what is being typed.

Often what is not said/typed is just as powerful as in absorbing the overall picture and indicating the attitude of the other party; and the little things start to become important. When someone stops doing the little things that sort of make a relationship just that bit special from others you start to wonder if they really want to be with you.

I've been through that recently and its the last point that caused me some distress.
As I have written before , the heart is a very emotional thing. It causes the head to act in an irrational or emotional state sometimes. Sometimes you regret it, sometimes you don't.

And the Time has Come the Walrus said

I've had the most wonderful time on sl over the last weeks, primarily due to my good friend Jay.

However all good things must come to an end, or so they say, and the Tyranny of Distance strikes again. Im sad in one way, but happy in another - you dont often get to share the intimacy of someone who just enjoys being with you and when it came I grabbed it with both hands.

I have a number of very close friends who seem to look over me, and to these I add Jay. I will follow his fortunes in sl from a distance but not without some part of my heart following.