Mending a Broken SL heart
Writing by Green Guy on Thursday, 27 of December , 2007 at 5:58 pm
Love happens. So do Break-Ups.
by Penance Sautereau
Love happens on SL. No one will deny that. But like RL, people grow apart. So if your SL romance fizzles, if it was serious for you, you’re going to feel hurt by it. Aside of the ways to cope with your hurt in real life, which may be the preferable choice for a few days, as in taking a break, if you must keep playing SL while healing, you’re going to need ways to distract yourself. So in that vein of reasoning…
TOP 5 WAYS TO DISTRACT YOURSELF FROM A BROKEN HEART ON SL
5) Go dancing! Yeah I know that sounds simplistic but SL has no shortage of dance clubs of all sorts, such as Lucifer’s, Gazza’s Bar, Refugees, Rogues Club, and many others. Sometimes dancing mindlessly to good music with fun people around is a great way to soothe the ache. For a lot of people it’s healthy to be around people after a break-up, and if your RL friends are bust, well, SL is always crowded. It also doesn’t hurt to just dance the anger away. Channeling break-up anger through dancing is a lot healthier and positive then stewing on it.
4) Go exploring. When you’re hurting in your heart, well, that’s a perfect time to look up some things on SL. I looked up the Apple store after seeing a video of it on YouTube, and had fun browsing all the virtual computer props. Then I looked for various themes. I found an actual Transgender support area, hidden amongst all the shemale sex clubs, and met some really cool people there. Just search the places tab for anything you’re into, goth, rave, art, etc, and go exploring. You’ll be amazed how easily you get distracted from the hurt.
3) Learn to build or create. Get yourself to one of the many public sandboxes here on SL and start building. Create something. Experiment with textures and shapes. Build a house, a car, or a guitar. Almost anything that you can imagine, you can build in SL. You might fnd it incredibly cathartic to even just build a box . It can be liberating, and can help you ignore the hurt for awhile. So go get yourself building, and see what you can come up with.
2) Hanging with friends. A simple yet easily overlooked option. There’s always SOMEONE on SL more than happy to shoot the breeze and gab happily for hours about anything and everything, or even nothing in particular. Talk about your break-up. Talk about the weather. Talk about that new prim outfit you bought that you don’t think quite looks right, but talk. It really is the best way to purge negative energy from a break-up, to just talk it out, or talk about completely unrelated things. But talk, and soon you’ll find the hurt fades into the background.
1) GO SHOPPING!!! Okay, this one probably usually only applies to us girls, well, except if there’s a good hardware store on here someplace. But the best medicine sometimes when we’re hurt is to go shopping. Spend frivolously on things you don’t need, or just window shop looking at nice stuff you can’t afford. Shopping is a great stress reliever, because you get so caught up in all the cool things you can find that for a while you forget you’re hurting. Shopaholics unite!
Of course we know nothing ever truly makes the hurt go away. Only time can do that. But for the immediate moment, it helps to have fun ways to make you stop thinking about it. And that’s really the best painkiller isn’t it? So go have fun. Hurt is only as painful as you allow it to be. I know that’s easier said than done for those of you who feel real emotions in SL, and for those who don’t well, you folk won’t get hurt to begin with and wouldn’t need this list.
But for those who do, I hope this list is helpful in taking your mind off the hurt. Thanks for reading.
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