She looked so haggard....

[Gopi Passiflora]

...she was no longer the vibrant young lady I was used to seeing....

What happened to her? Why?

[Rolig Loon]

I got older.

Oh, did you mean someone else?

[Gopi Passiflora]

4 minutes ago, Rolig Loon said:

I got older.

Oh, did you mean someone else?

Yes. She was the one I adored....

[Rolig Loon]

Well, we're all a little beat up by 2020, but most of us are pretty much the same fun-loving people we used to be. Inside, anyway.

[Ceka Cianci]

Time + Time= Time

 

[Amina Sopwith]

I don't know if you knew this person in SL or RL, Gopi...as you're posting about her here, I'm going to assume SL, and that she was mentally haggard. Obviously this post will read differently if I'm wrong.

She's a person, Gopi...SL really isn't the real world and truly living as a woman is much more complex and multifaceted, and frequently rather boring, than anyone could ever really experience via a digital computer world. Same for men too, I'm very sure. Doing the school run and the weekly shop are main realities of life for many women (some men too, of course, but mostly women). Women as a class still overwhelmingly take on more of the domestic gruntwork in reality, even if they work full time. And despite how often you'll see it fetishised in SL, it doesn't turn many women on in RL from what I've seen. It isn't all long hair and pretty clothes. Many women couldn't care less about those and anyway, they don't make you a woman. Men can have them too. 

I like you very very much, Gopi, I really do. I think you have a huge heart. But women are just people and in reality, despite often being shoehorned into a single stereotype, we are just as messy, contradictory, flawed and changeable as anyone else. It's never a good idea to hinge yourself on one aspect of someone, although sadly within SL, that's very easy to do.

Look after yourself. 

[Garnet Psaltery]

.... At the end of August, an envelope arrived bearing treasure.  Her birth certificate, impossible to find while she didn't know her name, promised answers.  Felix dropped the news while she lounged at his beach house.  Now home, she clung to the name he'd so casually mentioned, and chased herself down.  Ripping open the envelope, she swung wide eyes to the column marked 'Father' ....

[Fritigern Gothly]

8 hours ago, Gopi Passiflora said:

...she was no longer the vibrant young lady I was used to seeing....

What happened to her? Why?

Life happened. 

[Pixie Kobichenko]

[Seicher Rae]

19 hours ago, Pixie Kobichenko said:

Stealing this for one of my headstones...

[Lindal Kidd]

ONE OF your headstoneS!?

Gateau may have nine lives, but YOU don't!

(or maybe you're just a cockeyed optimist!)

 

Edited September 21, 2020 by Lindal Kidd

[Maryanne Solo]

On 9/20/2020 at 6:12 PM, Garnet Psaltery said:

.... At the end of August, an envelope arrived bearing treasure.  Her birth certificate, impossible to find while she didn't know her name, promised answers.  Felix dropped the news while she lounged at his beach house.  Now home, she clung to the name he'd so casually mentioned, and chased herself down.  Ripping open the envelope, she swung wide eyes to the column marked 'Father' ....

.... is buried at the Morwell cemetery, Victoria.
Taken aback somewhat, she stared at the horizon blankly. Sensing a huge weight of uncertainty and foreboding leave her. This was forever. Eternity, the remainder of her life.  
To be spent with no fear, no apprehension. Such a huge shadow which would no longer cloud her thoughts and feelings - forever.
*camera zooms in to blank stare - lasting 3 minutes and 10 seconds. -> 🤔 
*pans to a random eagle sitting on a tree branch...
 

Edited September 23, 2020 by Maryanne Solo

[Bree Giffen]

On 9/19/2020 at 5:33 PM, Gopi Passiflora said:

...she was no longer the vibrant young lady I was used to seeing....

What happened to her? Why?

Is this the lady with the long hair? Wow. So much happened since the last post. 

[Rolig Loon]

I thought maybe it was either Merle Haggard or H. Ryder Haggard in drag.

[Lindal Kidd]

[Angieecartel]

k

Edited September 24, 2020 by Angieecartel
I just wanna delete it lol

[Anna Salyx]

I think of Elsie till this very day
I remember how she´d turned to me and say:

 

"What good is sitting all alone in your room?
Come hear the music play
Life is a cabaret, old chum!
Come to the cabaret!"

 

 

[Maryanne Solo]

[Ceka Cianci]

Curious, Is this where the word Hag came from?

[Fritigern Gothly]

11 hours ago, Ceka Cianci said:

Curious, Is this where the word Hag came from?

A logical thought, but it's not quite correct. Although the two do share a relation to hedges. I know, that seems strange, but it's all explained in the links below.
https://www.etymonline.com/word/haggard
https://www.etymonline.com/word/hag

Edited September 25, 2020 by Fritigern Gothly

[Amina Sopwith]

20 hours ago, Anna Salyx said:

I think of Elsie till this very day
I remember how she´d turned to me and say:

 

"What good is sitting all alone in your room?
Come hear the music play
Life is a cabaret, old chum!
Come to the cabaret!"

 

 

When I go, I'm going like Elsie.

[Scylla Rhiadra]

3 hours ago, Amina Sopwith said:

When I go, I'm going like Elsie.

Sure.

It's all fun and games until the Nazis take over.

[FairreLilette]

On 9/19/2020 at 5:33 PM, Gopi Passiflora said:

...she was no longer the vibrant young lady I was used to seeing....

What happened to her? Why?

Did you ask her?  Sounds like very tired or stressed or both.  

[Eddy Vortex]

Chasing a roughhousing toddler around the house will make anyone haggardly.