Golda thinks about coincidence
Lately I have been thinking about coincidences, the weird happenings that are stranger than fiction. Such as, my husband and I took a cruise. Prior to the cruise I made connections with others on the cruise on the Cruise Critic web site. Through this I met a lady who was traveling with her elderly father. This man had worked with my husband’s father back in the early 1950’s.
Ok, I want to connect this to Second Life. I figured that for many of us that there is someone on Second Life who we knew in real life at some time or other. But, we have no idea that this person is involved in Second Life. The real life profiles for most people say little or nothing. Visual clues are not helpful. I do not look like a rat in real life. So whether or not you meet anyone from real life in second life, it is possible, but is it probable?
February 21st, 2007 at 8:53 am
I don’t actually know of any RL friends who are also in SL. If they are, it is a well kept secret. I’ve tried to persuade a few, including one who beta-tested the Sims Online. But none of them stuck around. Seems SL is too geeky even for them. Still, that’s OK. I prefer not to mix SL and RL too much.
February 21st, 2007 at 7:25 pm
A week ago I heard someone mentioned to another he came from Volendam. That is my hometown too. There live about 15.000 people there.
So the odds that I know him in real life are not that small to call it unprobable.
He also confided to me that his RL name was also Kees. How is that for coincidence?