funny, isn't it?

...just how much things can affect us, even when we know it's not real. How many times have you found a tear in your eye when you watch a particular movie? How many times has some novel...or even a soap opera got through to you when a character loses something or someone?
Not everyone can do a Rhett Butler..."frankly, my dear...."

I had a case of that a while ago. Second Life has the possibility for characters to rent places to live...now, just stay with me for a moment...I know it's not real, and the players go "home" at night... but if we're really recreating a life-like environment, then it ain't all discos and bars and fun palaces... Yes, I know that characters can be left to "sleep" on the beach while players are away. Or as some people do, just logoff and leave them wherever they stand. Can be fun when you logon next time and find a completely different scene taking place....

Well, anyway, one of my characters had fallen in love with a gorgeous condo overlooking the sea, a few steps away from the nicest beach I've seen in a long time. And then the black hats came by...with big black moustaches and sniggering laughter... and announced that this tropical paradise was being demolished to make way for a Japanese shopping mall...effective immediately. I found a really sad place inside that thought this was horrible...and so it was very easy for my character to be found a few minutes later, sitting on the beach in floods of tears....

This was months ago, and I'd rather forgotten about the scene. Yesterday I met one of the other characters who'd been there. And I was reminded of the scene...and as I sat thinking, the sadness came flooding back.

So, as you think of that sad movie moment...doesn't it still get to you??

funny, eh?