When I first joined Second Life I didn't expect anything from it. You spend your first few weeks roaming around different sims getting a feel for this world. At some point you find yourself at some club and engulfed with socializing up to your neck. There are times you feel yourself becoming some kind of fake with having to begin doing things that you never imagined yourself ever doing in your life. It usually ends up that you are just in the wrong club for you altogether. I been to quite a lot of clubs in my past year on Second Life so I know that it takes a special club to make you feel comfortable being yourself. I am known to be in a club where I say absolutely nothing the whole time. Some clubs you rather listen to the DJ playing tunes than socialize with anyone there. You may find a lot of people who go to clubs on here will as they call it "park" their avatar there while they do other stuff either online or in real life. I tend to do that myself. Nothing wrong with that. Clubs sometimes give off this aura that you can leave your avatar there without watching it and be safe. Black Horse Country is the essence of calm and fun all wrapped up in one that even if country music ain't your thing then you still like coming there. Club Exotico has become my home away from home with people who are so energetic and kind that you want to go there. I also recommend Club Delirium as the place to hang if you want to hear nice tunes around lots of people. Next comes the other hangout places such as cafes and parks, sadly a lot of those go out of style or change way too much. I remember when I started that I went to this one cafe like everyday when I logged on. Nowadays, it has moved so many times and changed so much that the good vibe memories of it are just gone. Places on here that you had so much memories at can be depressing when they are not at all what they used to be. This cafe I speak of used to have the mix of everything I enjoy on Second Life which is outstanding nature scenery, calming atmosphere, and lots of wonderful people to chat with. The past couple of weeks, it has been moved and reduced to nothing but a mundane looking Starbucks which makes me want to cry when I remember seeing it like that. No one really goes there anymore. They used to have the biggest traffic numbers for any non-club that I have ever seen and now it is down to like maybe 800 tops a day. I will miss that cafe because it was such a huge part of my Second Life so much that I practically begged to go back there when things got a little heavy between me and the owner. Now, I'd like to touch on the majestic beauties of nature sims around this virtual world. People who make them spend a lot of time thinking of how it should look and feel so much that you can tell this by simply spending a lot of hours sitting in a certain area. They place nature sounds to add to the calming atmosphere so you almost feel like you are somewhere real life. It is the ambience of sounds, trees, plants, and builds that make a nature sim the perfect place to sit back and let yourself be transported to a mediation type emotion. Runestone is one of those nature sims that I lose myself at in a good way. Hawaii is so perfectly put together that you literally feel like you are in a tropical space in your mind. Lake Gnoma always makes me feel like I am up at camp relaxing in the water whenever I have gone there. Well I can't think of anything else to say about exploring but simply to do a search for destinations that you may like going to and landmark those places you really like going to.
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