DADDY'S LITTLE DOLLY

I loved my Dad so very much! I think that is what daughters are born for -- to love and to, of course, spoil their Daddies. I was good at my job to be certain…and he always praised me and only spanked me once that I ever remember and that was because Mommy was too angry to trust herself to do the job that day.

So I was always a good little girl, but there was one thing my Daddy used to say to me, “Dolly,” (he always called me that and I used to worry that he had long ago forgotten my real name, but didn’t have the heart to correct him) “Dolly,” he would say, “you must not take life so seriously.”

I thought of his words today as I consider this hovering concept of INTEGRITY – yes, it still hovers – frozen between two worlds – one where most is hidden and it is easy to be holding a variety of conversations and lives at the same time.

The “VIRTUAL WORLD” is a game, I am constantly told. A place to have fun. And yet, one day as I was working on an article, I had this amazing world open in a small window on my desktop. I had a paradigm shift, as, for the first time I saw real people walking on and off this ethereal stage. Not pixels – but people.

It's the People

In the realm of this world in which I live, we welcome newbies or noobs (meaning they still have skull-cap-carved plastic looking hair and painted on clothing) by telling them that it is not the lovely plants and animals and buildings they see all around them that matters, it is conversations with the people – for they are what makes OUR realm more desirable to visit and, in essence, spend their time, energies, creativity and….money in.

One of my responsibilities in this realm is as an educator and in one of my classes I teach how to be a good role player - the key, I tell everyone is always to be who you are….with some improvements. (/me smiles)

I remember my Daddy’s words again…. “Dolly you must not take life so seriously.” And I remember this virtual world is one where we are to enjoy life, to explore things we can’t hope to get around to exploring in our real life and most of all, that we are to have fun.

Fun -- something I missed too many times in my real life.

Am I having fun this week? No. There are a variety of real and virtual reasons, including: my chronic lack of sleep, my stressing over other’s peoples emotions, how things are going with my character in my realm (and the secret one I am part of) and the recent loss of a friend.

All this said, I think I forgot about fun and thought about having a stroke or something to get out of this “responsibility” of instant, “arranged” marriage to someone who wrote about himself:

“I am the kind of person that can stay up for three hours holding one piece of ice in place on you. But I am also the kind of person that can put a piece of ice on you in a certain place and walk away or a half an hour. >:) “

Amazing, today his blog site begins with a lovely and gentle video of a woman from India, singing in her native tongue the story of her life, and in the vignette she recalls her arranged marriage, where all the characters cry. And I thought, enough of this, I want to have fun! I hope it's not too late....