I've been doing a lot of thinking about the different types of masks we wear. I know there's going to be a few of you that don't feel like you wear masks, but if you search deep enough, I think you'll have no choice but to agree that sometimes it's a necessity, even if you're meaning the best for you and everyone around you.
For the most part, I try to remain pretty unguarded. I like to think I see people in their best light - but I am easily affected by the language someone uses and their ways of expressing themselves... and if I get the feeling that there's someone not being 100% real with me, I'll throw a mask up too, and mirror that back to them.
There are also times where we plaster on a smile and act like everything is okay, when in reality, maybe we're not quite as okay as we'd like everyone to believe.
There's been a myriad of losses in the community lately thanks to depression, anxiety, suicide and general negativity around mental health. I feel like it's important to continue to address these issues consistently and constantly, not to shame, but to bring to light the fact that although someone can appear fine, they may be fighting a battle you're unaware of.
I want to throw out a reminder that just because you feel alone, it doesn't mean that you are alone. There is NO SHAME in reaching out. It will not weaken you!
I can't express how saddening it is that we haven't worked out how to support each other through these tough times. How we haven't learned to see the sorrow in someone's smile, or the hurt in their eyes, enough to reach out a hand for them to hold when their pain becomes to much for them to bear.
Please, be as kind as you can to each other.
We are all here for a reason... we're all a little bent out of shape. Let's start today by showing compassion, to ourselves and each other.
xoxo.
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Body, Hands & Feet : [SIGNATURE] Gianni - Mesh Body
Location : Elysion (Adult) - The Redwoods (Residential Sim, Group only access. Please be courteous!)
Today, I bought you flowers.
As soon as I saw this tattoo I squee'd. Santi also prodded me to make sure I'd seen it.
I don't love many flowers, I mean, they're pretty to look at and some of them smell okay but I'm a pretty severe hayfever sufferer and if I sniff for too long I'm likely to cough, splutter and sneeze for at least an hour afterwards... but sunflowers? I can get with those bad boys.
I'm not sure what it is. Perhaps it's their cheery colour, or the fact that they really do look like little suns growing tall and proud, or maybe it's because as a kid in Primary Schools we were encouraged to grow them and the tallest won.. something I don't remember. I don't like eating the seeds, but I do like watching the lil animals scampering around shoveling them into their mouths and running away with cheeks full to popping point. And hamsters. I kinda have a love hate relationship with those furry buggers too, but they're always adorable with a pouch full of sunflower seeds.
Anyway... with such unusual colouring I wanted to make this picture pop, and I totally copied my Juni and ran around Elysion (because she'd reminded me I was in the group and I flippin' paid the fee so I'm gonna flippin' use it, k?). I believe it's been newly decorated and semi-newly opened up with rentals and it's of course, stunning and I hate that I'm a fraction as talented as the landscapers... but I digress again...
Honestly, I have no idea where I'm going. Sometimes I start with a plan, and other times it half formulates as I'm writing. I think today I might have fallen down a rabbit hole and maybe should have written about bedazzling my vagjayjay like I suggested to Juni, but I'm not. Instead I'll tell you that I spent a small fortune trying to get the bee's & the purple headpiece from a Lode Gacha, because they matched the tattoo and whenever I think of Sunflowers I also think of bee's, and scamper off to sleep after an amazingly awesome set by Recka at Consent. Yes. That's a good plan Pickle. Go to sleep you plonker.
