Entering Virtuality

The initial reason why I entered a 3D world, was because I was sick of my (now ex) gf spending time writing out role playing games for weeks on end and feeling like I was left out. So I felt I would enter a world where I would be able to have my own little space that I knew she would have no say and nothing to do with.

I already had an idea that it was impossible to separate ourselves from our avatars/characters due to the nature of any reality and humans. However I really had no idea what I was in for, I knew I was a 'noob' and loved it all the same, within a few months I met only a handful of people who have changed my life for better and forever. Never met face to face but I'd know them in an instant people I would call best friends, they have been with me through joy, through pain, through depression and I always feel this connection with them, I even regard one of them as a sister.

However something more amazing happened, I met my current girlfriend, my head was screaming no, my heart was screaming yes. It's hard to explain, like something that feels so right and yet so wrong, something you know will be hard and potentially fatal but want to do it anyway. For me personally entering a long distance relationship for the first time was horrible because I knew that people wouldn't be able to understand that I was going to be labeled and something that would seriously matter to me, be aggressively attacked by just about everyone I knew outside of the virtual world. Not only that, but I never entered virtuality to find such a deep level of a relationship.

Unfortunately I was right, I've had all sorts, everything from "that doesn't count" to "why don't you give up your 'gf' and ...", but I wouldn't change her for anyone, not now, not before and not in a million years and I no longer care for what others may say, she is my woman, I am her man.

Existing within an international virtual world has taught me many things, business, relationships, human behavior, beauty, ugliness, in essence life. I could rant on for hours but I do not feel my stories are very different from many others as at the end of the day, we are only human. :)