Most everyone reading this has probably already accurately pegged me as someone who thinks a little too much. I admit to it freely, and while it can sometimes be a very aggravating habit, it’s also part of what makes me who I am. I’ve learned that the trick for making it less of a negative for myself is to share those thoughts no matter how silly they might seem in the light of day. I do that mostly through talking with my friends and blogging. Lately, I keep coming back to who I am in SL and what I want to be, which is a recurring theme for myself and also in some of the blogs I read.

So who am I? Well, it’s not really a surprise, but I’m not one of those people to sweep into SL and become a well-known designer or artist as much as I admire those people’s skills. My blog is not going to be the darling of the SL blogging world, and honestly, I’m glad about that because performance anxiety would surely kill me dead if I thought a lot of people were reading these posts. I measure myself against these other people, and I always come up short.

I can spend days listing for you all the things that I’m not, but it’s not like that does me a lot of good. I’ve talked before about the way of the awesome and figuring out what will make SL awesome for you and then pursuing whatever that is, and I think I’m being reminded lately that me pursuing my personal brand of awesome isn’t always going to seem that awesome to other people and that that’s ok. Sometimes, my awesome is simply stepping back and realizing how lucky I am to have the friends that I have and the wonderful opportunities to explore gorgeous sims and take photos.

When I first started thinking about how I could follow the awesome in SL, I think I got a little too fixated on doing big grand things. That seems like such a silly fixation as I watch people buy and wear the eyes I make, use a script I wrote, or learn about a fun sim or a friend’s creations because of my blog and/or photos. We touch each other in ways that aren’t always obvious or even seen by us, and that’s awesome.