Good News from Second Life
A few weeks ago, one of my Second Life friends lost her hair. You laugh. And so did she, as well as every other real life person that heard the story. It was particularly touching, and equally funny, when her hair showed up in the Second Life Lost and Found. My friend was able to get her hair back.
But seriously, how nice is that? Some upstanding avatar found something that didn't belong to him or her, and, rather than stealing it, simply returned it to its rightful owner by placing it in the Lost and Found.
Stories like this warm my heart. Then again, I used to be a kindergarten teacher. Sharing, playing fair, taking time for milk and cookies, being nice, living a balanced life, and doing the right thing, which would include returning lost things to their rightful owner, are among life's most important and basic lessons.
I'm happy to report that this was not an isolated event. This past weekend, I received an email notifying me that one of my Second Life "objects" had been found on a beach, and had been returned to the Lost and Found. Turns out that I left behind a box while playing in the Sun sandbox, which was subsequently found and returned. Again, how nice.
So, amidst the stories of avatar fleecing, terrorists, corporate espionage, and attacks that I've talked about in other entries of this blog, there are good things happening in Second Life.
And that should please all of us, even if we never taught kindergarten.
