Carol H Tucker Passionate about knowledge management and organizational development, expert in loan servicing, virtual world denizen and community facilitator, and a DISNEY fan
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beladona Memorial Be warned:in this very rich environment where you can immerse yourself so completely, your emotions will become engaged -- and not everyone is cognizant of that. Among the many excellent features of SL, there is no auto-return on hearts, so be wary of where your's wanders...
One of my earliest memories of discussing my future with my mother has me telling her that I was "going to make a difference", that I wasn't going to be content to be a "cog in the wheel", that my life wasn't going to be ordinary like her's. She got angry and told me off. Looking back on it? That might've been the reason she refused to let me accept that full scholarship to a college away, making sure that I was firmly rooted in the mundane workaday world....
Throught the years, I have found that desire to make a difference is something that I share with many. We all want to believe that we are special, that we make a difference, that somehow we are touched by destiny, that we have been chosen in some way.
I thought I had a destiny. But I never found the wardrobe opening to Narnia, the letter from Hogwarts never came, Gandalf didn't show up before I turned 50, the Tardis hasn't landed, I haven't been beamed up by aliens. I am not a descendent of Lazarus Long. There hasn't been a time/space warp nearby that I can jump into. No one has ever pledged everlasting love to me that will burn brightly through the centuries or vowed that they will always find me.
I am a cog in the wheel. And without me and all the rest of us plain folk, the world just does not work.
And while part of my spirit wishes to soar, to be so much more, I do not know what the price would be....
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