Sometimes I ask myself what am I doing here in this “Game”.Real life is so much more important .
There are things going on that I should attend to but don’t. I should forget all about this.
But beyond it all there is real life always spilling over into this world of fantasy.
For months now here in the virtual world many have been planning, holding, and attending events to raise money for something that affects us all at some way in real life, and as we have seen with the trials of our second life friends ,whom we have never met in real life.
Somehow we feel it keenly touch our hearts and minds.
There is a an article in the SL iReports that brought that home to me when my friend Dione Kohime sent a link asking us to read and ponder.Dione has been working tirelessly as leader of the Eternal Beacon team since day 1 to raise money for cancer research as have many other teams in sl.
The article in its title asks the question "Are Virtual Gamers Mocking the American Cancer Society?"
It starts out making you wonder if we are. The frivolous nature of our second lives in may ways could cause one to think this but further on you realize this article catches the essence of what is going on is second life and the fact that it is very real in raising real money for research.
How about 110,000 real American dollars last year.
I hope you will all take some time to read the touching essay by CaSimone on the CNN bloggers website.
Each of us has a story similar to this to remind us why we are involved in the work of fund raising in the midst of our song and dance.
Gemma Cleanslate
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