Well, now that my new(ish) friends Shuggi and lliandere have both started their own blogs, I suppose it’s time to stop neglecting my own. 
What a year this has been. 2008 was a rather tumultuous journey, filled with personal highs and lows. I’ve made friendships, then drifted apart from them, yet others I’ve formed a deeper bond with than any friend I’ve ever made in my conservative Christian upbringing. I’ve faced despair as I sought to find myself, then elation as I finally found her, then disappointment and determination on discovering just what that will mean. I thought I’d found my place, only to once again become a wanderer.
It’s been a crazy, wild year for me. I’ve made steps foreward, only to meet imposing chasms and walls. Every moment of elation has been matched by a moment of disappointment and disgust, making some wild yin-yang of joy and sorrow.
Funny part is how little of it really has to do with Second Life. Most of the issues I’ve faced (or I dare say, THE big issue) has very little to do with SL, and more to do with the person behind these puppet strings really is. I dare say I think I’ve found her… but the implications have only served to subdue what otherwise should be a wonderful discovery.
I never really wanted this to be this kind of blog. I always had in mind a happy, fun blog about stuff I was interested in. But lately… it just seems life has thrown me through a real loop… and I’m having a hell of a time coping.I don’t know what I’d do without my two SL sis’ Lex and Thaddy. I really don’t know what I’d do without you two.
And to everyone else I’ve crossed paths with, who has made SL a happy escape for me…. Thank You. I really don’t have words to express what that has meant for me the past year.
God bless, and a happy 2009 to you all.
Love,
Vel
