Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Day 4: Learning What It Means to be Wet

Banishment is about isolation, but more than that.  It is being isolated… in the midst of everyday life.

I see friends log on and log off… passing through SL without me being able to contact them or them contact me.  Every so often I receive an IM from a friend.  It’s blocked, just leaving me to wonder what they are trying to say.  Group notices come through… teasing me of events that are happening, but which I cannot attend.  The experience is painfully like the novel.

So, I’m settling in for the long haul.  Every day I have come across words of encouragement from my friends written in the sand.  They mean a lot to me… thanks. :)  I certainly do miss all of you.  At the same time, though, there is a part of me that is enjoying the time… watching the world unfold without being involved in it… kind of like a fish learning that it is wet.

3 comments:

Unknown said...

Keep up the thoughts, sweetie. I'll keep thinking of you - and I'll be ready to greet you when you're released, and you can tell me all about your experience. It's like nothing else I've done to date.

Anonymous said...

A great experience, i bet. Inspired by you i am just reading the little novel and you where right: It i intense and very good. Feelable. I am thinking a lot about trying to make such an experience too, but i am not sure if i´ll be able to decide.
Think a lot of you, and almost every time i see you logging on or off.
Unfeelable hugs, Dani

Anonymous said...

For those of us on the outer circle I wish I knew how to help inany way. Just know that lots of people are thinking of you every day and missing you! Mercy