Friday, February 15, 2008

Destruction/Creation

I've said before that I may be a little fickle. In all honesty, I know that I most certainly CAN be fickle. This trait compliments my overall impulsive and spontaneous nature that materializes on both sides of the grid.
Whether you're aware of it or not, I was emperor of Tianan Palace. This is what culminates when you build your own castle. You obviously become it's ruler and supreme god/human embodiment. However, in true Prince to Pauper fashion, I have foregone the life of a royal to join that of the common resident. In Layman's terms, I got bored. In RL I'm chest deep in frozen participation and I'm getting a severe case of the blahs. Since SL is a place of digital fantasy where a person can make anything happen, I took it upon myself to free up some prims and create a tropical paradise. I home on the grid is a waterfront view, but it's far from a tropical island. It looks far too temperate to be tropical. 233 meters up, where my palace in the sky once stood, you can now find wet sand, palm trees, and freebie tiki constructions. Turn on the speakers and I get to listen to reggae to aid in completing the illusion.
This sudden compulsion to create something new has pretty much been my common theme throughout my lifetime (approaching eight months old!!). Since I purchased my first 512sq. plot in July of last year, I have been continuously building something. Since I bought my land in Mindio I've done the following:
  1. Built Sunflower Studios
  2. Rezzed and decorated my above sky-level (ASL) retreat
  3. Destroyed ASL retreat and created Tianan Palace (took 2-3 weeks)
  4. Collaborated with Moriz to enjoin his land to mine with a walkway and elevator
  5. Created "Winter Wonderland" to celebrate Christmas
  6. Removed all forms of winter and collaborated with Fuene and Rio to create our Tree Villiage which includes Gogo's Treehouse Bar
  7. Built home for my friend Tomoya Yokosuka
  8. Created "Hell" in collaboration with Fuene and Rio which includes mazes and a mini-adventure
  9. Destroyed Tianan Palace and replaced with a Sky-Boxed tropical paradise.
How does this not sound like a kid playing with LEGO™? As with LEGO™, sometimes you must destroy in order to create (bless Linden's and their idea of prims). One must fall in order to stand-up. Only when you've lost everything are you free to do anything. I could probably dig deeper to find even more catch phrases to say the same thing. What is it that makes us want to destroy and re-create? Why is it that we want bigger, better, stronger, or completely different? It's a strange idiosyncrasy of human nature that I don't understand, but evidently can't deny. Given this, it makes me wonder what I did before I existed on the grid.

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