Soul Searching

The past two years have been an incredible roller coaster ride for me. I’ve experienced many highs and lows in that time and along the way have met some incredible people. My life as it is today is chaotic in the sense that I have many different things going on and find myself having to choose between many of them. This goes for both rl and sl and changes will be necessary if I expect to have some semblance of order in my life.

As of late, I find that I am struggling to keep up with all aspects of my life, in particular second life. I am not on as long as I used to be and find that I log on to get work done, and then log off shortly thereafter. Second life at times has become a job to me, a place where I go to work and leave to go home. Don’t get me wrong. I love second life and all the good things that have happened here. I have developed some wonderful friendships; people I would not have met otherwise and I value each of these friendships. I think I filled my time here with a lot of work to keep me busy, and now I’m too busy and have little time for my friends. That is not a good thing.

There are probably a number of options I have to alleviate this situation. The most drastic and not considerable is leaving second life altogether. I don’t’ want to do this, I do want to be a part of second life, but maybe not with the impact I was trying to make. I do feel I need to let a part of second life go, to free some of my time, my money, and my sanity. I have become so attached to everyone here. I also know that my friends in second life have been so supportive of what I’ve tried to do in second life, and that has made a big difference. I have thought about selling A Fashion Statement, and I’m not sure how that would work. I’ve thought about selling or closing out the other businesses but am confused on how that would go.

I have a lot of soul searching to do and must reevaluate my reasons for being here and what my involvement here will be. I love new challenges, which is what drew me here, but I also have to realize that devotion to real life must come first. In that vain, the first change I’m making is with new clothing for A FASHION STATEMENT. For the past while, I’ve been releasing a new outfit everyday. Since keeping up with my clothing inventory as well as trying to be creative with clothes is time consuming, I will cut back on new outfits. I’ll still release new ones, but periodically, maybe one or two a week. Hopefully this will free up a little time for other things.

Anyway, I have not made any concrete plans as to what to do with my second life. I’m just beginning to sort through my options.

Ciao For Now

Jenny