Can you use SL as a way to work your way out of a crises? Or can you write yourself well? I’ve tried both. When I first joined SL I was overworked and really depressed. I spent more time online than offline and that helped me get better for a while. But at some point I felt I didn’t need SL that much. My trips to the virtual world was just for fun.
I have also written myself out of depression. The novel I have that is almost finished kept me sane when life got too difficult for me.
But in the end, all that is just superficial. You can’t hide in a virtual world or in a self created fairytale forever. As a “friend” in SL once told me:
“Alright, here’s a reality check. You’re old, you’re fucking ugly, you have a go nowhere career, you’re lost within a fictional world and live your life through a video game.”
How right he was…
I’m at a point in my life when everything just falls apart around and inside me and nothing I do can distract me from that. I know that my blog posts wouldn’t be very interesting or fun right now, so I‘ll stop writing for a while.