Minutes apart ...

I was sitting outside a building and caught this man on a bench in front of me. He made me smile. He reminded me of childhood, of 'happy' and of enjoying life in its most simplest of moments. I continued to watch him until he walked away.



After a short while a lady came and sat on the bench and she too started swinging her legs.

Other people came to sit on this bench but only these two felt compelled to 'swing'.

I suddenly had this thought, "Oh my goodness, they could've been soulmates! They just missed one another by a matter of minutes."

I often wonder what would have happened if Maxine never wandered over to the FBI-SL build and IM'd the director Antonio LeSuere. She would never have met Hank Wade (our SL brother) whom she tried to find a last minute Christmas gift for - a Fim Fischer Watch, on that fateful December 24th night. Maxine would never have thought of teleporting me to Fim's watch store - and Fim and I would never have met.

I do not want to think much about the series of events that lead us to one another. One missing variable may have changed everything. Fim seems to think that we would have met anyway. I would like to believe that. You know, 'synchronocity' and all. But it still leaves me to wonder if 'synchronocity' has an open door with a time limit, just like the saying, 'a window of opportunity'.

Timing seems to be everything in life.

I once read somewhere that if 'timing is everything, and it just didn't happen at the right time, then it was not meant to be."

I still shudder every now and then.

I could not imagine a Second Life without Fim Fischer - the watchmaker.
I cannot imagine my Real Life without the man behind the Fim Fischer avatar.

I suppose then, that 'time' certainly worked out for the both of us. You think it had something to do with Fim being a watchmaker? *smiles*

When Second Life Meets Real Life Part I

What happens to your psyche when the life you live in Second Life has somehow transitioned into Real Life?

As a newbie over a year ago, it did not take me long to recognize the impact that Second Life could have on one's psyche. I had met people whose Real Life illnesses had chained them to hospital beds, kept them indoors, confined them to wheelchairs or simply left them exhausted after medical treatments.

There were also those people who had seemed to be going thru self imposed therapy, working out certain Real Life self issues thru interactions with others, or by entering into inworld relationships.

Then of course, there were others who lead a completely different Second Life, far from that of their Real Life. Afterall, how many 'furries', slave girls, vampires, or talking orbs do you see in Real Life?

I had undergone my own journey of self discovery and it was not intentional, by far. It was, rather, part of the big scheme of things that I knew would someday unfold before me - causing me to completely change my present life situation. What I did not expect, was to ever find myself in a 3D virtual world, live out and express my much suppressed creativity, and meet an avatar that would enhance my Second Life as well as my Real life. Enter Fim Fischer.

This avatar not only showed me (indirectly) the areas of my human'ness that I needed to work on, he had also taught me about me. His Real Life personality managed to find a way into my psyche and 'heal' me. Was this planned? Absolutely not.
Neither of us ever planned to have a 3D virtual relationship. As a matter of fact, both of us laughed at the prospect of how people can allow themselves to even be involved like that.

To this day, we are still baffled how we allowed ourselves to enter and to carry on our relationship inworld.

The word 'baffled' does not occupy most of our thoughts when we think about how it all began. Rather, we have both come to choose and accept words like, fate, destiny and phrases like, "meant to be".

On looking back at the first posts of this blog, and the insight that Maxine Montale had, even back then, that had prompted her to start a blog with a theme such as 'synchronocity' and the 'influence' of the Greater Consciousness - I can only smile in content and nod in total agreement.

It only took Fim Fischer and I three months of being together inworld to know that the people behind these avatars wanted to be together in Real Life. After much talking and longing .. we both decided, or allowed ourselves to follow the natural course of things that had started on that fateful evening on December 24, 2006.

On Tuesday May 8, 2007 Ysabel Isabella in Real Life, left Houston, Texas to start a life with the Real Life Fim Fischer. Not only has their meeting set a precedence for Second Life but the choice they made to do this is surely an act of 'believing in LOVE' and 'following your heart'.