2009.05.23 07:00 - balancing time

The Guardian for this meeting was Eliza Madrigal, grabbing the log for Lia. The comments are by Eliza Madrigal.

Nymf, quaezar, sophia and I first talked a while about balancing SL & FL time.

Nymf Hathaway: Good day Eliza :)
quaezar Agnomen: Hello Eliza
Eliza Madrigal: Wow, brilliant!
Eliza Madrigal: Good day Nymf and quaelzar :)
quaezar Agnomen: no problem
Eliza Madrigal: OOps..sorry :)
quaezar Agnomen: :)
Eliza Madrigal: Love your outfit Nymf :)
Nymf Hathaway: Thank you :)
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Eliza Madrigal: Looks fun to hover over the fountain....
quaezar Agnomen: I drifting :)
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Eliza Madrigal: How are you both today?
Nymf Hathaway: Doing well thank you, beautiful weather here and how are you?
Nymf Hathaway: Q is crashing :) hehe
Eliza Madrigal: Well. The sun is shining today, but yesterday there were terrible downpours, which I love :)
Eliza Madrigal: Oh Quaezar... have heard from others that SL is odd today
Eliza Madrigal: Hi Stephen
Nymf Hathaway: Hello Stephen...yes Eliza that can be great as well :)
Eliza Madrigal: Welcome to Play as Being :)
Eliza Madrigal: Stephen, have you been here before?
Eliza Madrigal: We record our sessions, and if you'd rather not be included in that I can edit you out.
Eliza Madrigal: You are welcome to stay... take a seat?
Nymf Hathaway: Rightclick on a pillow and choose sit :)
Nymf Hathaway: ah :)
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Eliza Madrigal: Often happens.
Nymf Hathaway: yes :)
Eliza Madrigal: I was IMing with him also.... but ah well :) Suppose he needed more tights.... went shopping
Nymf Hathaway: hahhahaha
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Eliza Madrigal: I took yesterday off from SL... was a good idea I think....
Eliza Madrigal: am thinking of having "Silence Fridays"
Nymf Hathaway: Oh I can so relate to that
Nymf Hathaway: Since I returned it bothered me I spend as much time as I do already again :(
Eliza Madrigal: You're getting your balance again.
Nymf Hathaway: Time flies in here
Eliza Madrigal: How long have you been back?
Eliza Madrigal: YES!
Nymf Hathaway: a week
Eliza Madrigal: Ah...not too bad. Sometimes it is good to be a little more structured.
Eliza Madrigal: I always intend to try to 'go with the flow' but when I see that isn't working organically, I step in!
Eliza Madrigal: heheh
Nymf Hathaway: yes and this new return should provide me some balance and structure
Eliza Madrigal: :) I hope so
Nymf Hathaway: working on it :) but great idea a friday off
Eliza Madrigal: I learn from others. Eos mentioned that he and his family have "Analog Sundays"
Nymf Hathaway: Sounds nice as well
Eliza Madrigal nods
Nymf Hathaway: I refused the digi bit for 7 months...it was heaven :)
Eliza Madrigal: 7 months... wow..a relative lifetime :)
Nymf Hathaway: yes :))
Nymf Hathaway: Nature, books, music and great food... did a world of good
Nymf Hathaway: Hi Q :)
Eliza Madrigal: It sounds like you paid a great deal of attention during that time
quaezar Agnomen: Hi Love
Eliza Madrigal: Hi again Q
Eliza Madrigal: WB
quaezar Agnomen: Sure is troubled...
quaezar Agnomen: tnx
quaezar Agnomen: Sl client crashed
Eliza Madrigal: Nymf was telling me about taking time offline and enjoying everything... food, nature, etc :)
quaezar Agnomen: Indeed compare RL ..SL is nothing.. and people must watch out that not to much time is spend here between these bits and bytes
Eliza Madrigal: I'm thinking that it is much like taking the pauses every 15 minutes...
Nymf Hathaway: Balance ... so easily lost when you have a goodtime inworld :)
Nymf Hathaway: yes simular :)
Eliza Madrigal: that it is a good idea to pause every hour, every day, every week, every year...
quaezar Agnomen: Agree Nymf...it is all about balance that you can accomplish being disiplined
Eliza Madrigal nods
Eliza Madrigal: And another way in which we can learn from each other :)
quaezar Agnomen: :o)
Nymf Hathaway: Agrees
quaezar Agnomen: I learn each day..
Eliza Madrigal: Nature seems to go in cycles, so...
Nymf Hathaway: I think the rest is taking a pause as well :)
Eliza Madrigal: :)
quaezar Agnomen: Hello Sophia
Nymf Hathaway: Hello Sophia :)
Eliza Madrigal: Bye the time winter is over, you're very ready for it to be over.... then spring arrives and then we're ready for summer after a while...
Eliza Madrigal: Hello Dazzling Sophia
Eliza Madrigal: :)
sophia Placebo: hello quaezar ,nymf eliza
sophia Placebo: :)
Eliza Madrigal: (although in saying that about winter, is not quite true for me... heheh)
quaezar Agnomen: Nice flower :)
sophia Placebo: ty :)
quaezar Agnomen: you are welcome
Eliza Madrigal: sophia, we were talking a bit this morning about balancing time, or balancing in time?
sophia Placebo: from what angle?
Eliza Madrigal: Well, I took yesterday off entirely and am thinking of making it a habit... SIlence Fridays
Eliza Madrigal: so Nymf mentioned her extended break from SL...
Eliza Madrigal: soaking up nature...enjoying food.... :) A purposeful time
sophia Placebo: i see
Eliza Madrigal: :) And the pauses we take are all about that too!
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Eliza Madrigal: Stopping to step out
Nymf Hathaway: Its a form of renewing onceself
Eliza Madrigal: MM, yes
Eliza Madrigal: Replenishing
Eliza Madrigal: So we can be a dazzling like a sophia flower...heheh :)
Nymf Hathaway: :))
Eliza Madrigal: I can't stay this morning. I have an appointment which will require many attentive pauses. I grabbed the log for Lia though
sophia Placebo: it is amazing how bigger universe inside each of us me thinks , that we need to balance time to give a chance to explore other aspects of self and its relations
Eliza Madrigal: sophia, yes!
Eliza Madrigal: so many expansive rooms!
Nymf Hathaway: Life has become full of possibilities the last few decades
Nymf Hathaway: Depending on where you are located in rl
Eliza Madrigal: yes... and so many things are accessible to 'everyone'
quaezar Agnomen: I have RL duties...excuse me ladies...till next time and have a nice day! :)
Eliza Madrigal: Bye for now quaezar
sophia Placebo: bye
quaezar Agnomen: Bye :)
Eliza Madrigal: And getting to know other people seems the *most* interesting explorating
Eliza Madrigal: *exploration
sophia Placebo: nods
Nymf Hathaway: Agrees
Eliza Madrigal: I think that is why SL is so appealing. The visual contexts create a field so similar to "rl"
sophia Placebo: self exploration is the most scary most avoided yet most rewarded
Eliza Madrigal: and we step in and see each other from so many angles
Eliza Madrigal nods
sophia Placebo: true eliza
Eliza Madrigal: I once read a story years ago... about all these people getting to 'heaven' and there being a ring of fire that each stepped into to reveal their 'true' self...
sophia Placebo: re nymf : how geography affect posiibilities creation or existance?
sophia Placebo: say more eliza
Eliza Madrigal: hmm... and this is a shared geography! :)
Eliza Madrigal: I was just extrapolating a bit sophia...
Eliza Madrigal: that sometimes SL seems that way...
Nymf Hathaway: Well I am born in a rich and war-free country... but I can imagine being born in Africa or palestine and I would not have the same possibilties
Eliza Madrigal: we can be a flower, or a ball of energy....or a cloud
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Eliza Madrigal: Ah, yes Nymf.
sophia Placebo: totally agree eliza
Eliza Madrigal: Maybe the internet creates more and more wormholes... getting to places which seem out of touch/reach even now
sophia Placebo: me thinks that possibilites never stop being out there
Eliza Madrigal nods
sophia Placebo: as long as you are all intented to keep creating some and discovering others
Nymf Hathaway: Agrees fully but when you know the pyramid of Maslow you know that it will come to you in steps
Eliza Madrigal: Optimism
sophia Placebo: african poeple are looking to diffrent possibilites than other poeple on earth , as maybe my nighbor is looking for diffrent possibilties than i
sophia Placebo: maybe you are right about maslow pyramid but cant there be another way
Eliza Madrigal: I need to get going....
Eliza Madrigal: so nice to sit with you guys this morning :)
sophia Placebo: bye eliza
Nymf Hathaway: Have a nice day Eliza :)
Eliza Madrigal: Have a wonderful day!

After beginning to discuss ways in which opportunity might truly be available to 'all' one day, and my having to exit, Nymf and sophia discuss a far more serious topic.

Nymf Hathaway: Could you explain what you mean by Another way?
sophia Placebo: another possibiltie to possibilites creation ?
Nymf Hathaway: I agree with the fact possibilities are everywhere... thats the human brain all about; seaking solutions, possibilities etc
Nymf Hathaway: But in the western world I see an upcomming amount of people being burnout...when you look at the why factor ... its all about having too much to do, and less time
sophia Placebo: i see
Nymf Hathaway: When you do not have to ensure food on the table (because you can buy it in the supermarket around the corner) and you do not have to worry about being safe (because of war) and much other factors of course.... than you have a lot of time on your hands to fill in with things you are interested in... it seems finding balance in such is hard
Nymf Hathaway: Luxury problem really
Nymf Hathaway: I think finding possibilities in Palestine is a whole other ball game
sophia Placebo: well i think worries take much more energy from poeple than daily life struggles
sophia Placebo: palestine is a very complicated issue
Nymf Hathaway: Yes I have noticed
Nymf Hathaway: But I do not see why really
Nymf Hathaway: Are you from Palestine?
sophia Placebo: well , long story short , it is a wound that have been constatly itched infected and left without proper treatment
sophia Placebo: ah no im not
Nymf Hathaway: I agree fully!
Nymf Hathaway: I feel ashamed the western world stole land from the Palestinians and just gave it to another people
Nymf Hathaway: I cannot imagine another country will accept such
sophia Placebo: i think no need to be ashamed from somthing you didnt do
Nymf Hathaway: Well its one of the bad things still running on this globe
Nymf Hathaway: I hope Obama's input will help solve the situation
sophia Placebo: im not that much optimistic
Nymf Hathaway: no?
sophia Placebo: no
Nymf Hathaway: how come?
sophia Placebo: the recent political status is in favour of no solution
sophia Placebo: from both sides , israeli and palestenians
Nymf Hathaway: True
sophia Placebo: add to that hizbullah in lebanon and the current elections
sophia Placebo: and the increasing fear of iranian threat
Nymf Hathaway: But communication can build bridges... the Palestinians just want a piece of their own land... Israel just has to give in... and Obama made it clear thats what he wants to persue
Nymf Hathaway: Is that really so...Iranian is seeing as a threat at this point?
sophia Placebo: unstable iraq and possibility of reform anytime during the upcoming elections
Nymf Hathaway: true
sophia Placebo: yes iranians are seen to be increasing threat from israeli and amrecan side plus arab allies
Nymf Hathaway: I hoped that would have improved a bit :(
Nymf Hathaway: I am too optimistic and maybe onrealistic at times (noticing more and more :( )
sophia Placebo: nitnyaho said a few days ago that jeurosulm is a capital for isreal and would not be cut into tow halvs
Nymf Hathaway: Its depressing
sophia Placebo: already arabs of eastern jerosulm are being debarted from thre homes
Nymf Hathaway: oh
Nymf Hathaway: Seen from my point of view.... the Jews are doing exactly the same as what has happend to them 60 years ago... seems like a never healed victim
sophia Placebo: maybe
sophia Placebo: though not all jews are
Nymf Hathaway: I cannot imagine you would want another person to experience a thing you yourself experienced as really bad
sophia Placebo: some are really all just about palestine
sophia Placebo: a few days ago on press tv there was an intervew with a holocuast servivor 92 old lady who was supprting palestinians and said the same thing nymf re same experiance
Nymf Hathaway: The fact people are fighting over land (and in a few years over planets) is stupid.... boundries are fictive. We all live on the same planet. With the same needs. A safe place, food, education and progress.
Nymf Hathaway: Smiles... I love that lady :) wisdom comes with aging :)
Nymf Hathaway: Sorry to say Sophia but I need to log off.... I loved our talk, thank you very much
sophia Placebo: bye nymf :)
Nymf Hathaway: Bye bye see you soon :)
sophia Placebo: thank you too :)
Nymf Hathaway: :)