>Wishful Thinking
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I want a second life dammit. And I’m not talking about those sites which allow you to create your own avatar and live your double life online. Oh no. I want the real deal.
Confused? Apologies.
Its Monday morning and I’ve already exhausted my supply of swear words. Is it any surprise that I’m even more incoherent than usual?
During one of my reads, I came across a site which allows you to build a virtual life online. While the idea of a double life online scares me a bit (think about it, it’s probably a haven for pedophiles and sex offenders to exercise their perverted fantasies.) I find the concept of escapism extremely appealing.
Maybe it’s just me, but I’d love to evade the monotony of routine and disappear just for a bit every now and then. To lead a completely different existence to what I have right now. Just for a bit.
Not the type of double life where you have three different spouses in different continents and a Swiss bank account stashed away with money you embezzled.from your grandfather’s company. But the type, which allows you space. To get away for a bit and be somebody else. (Obviously, without causing any grief to anyone else.)
If I could have my way and if finances were unlimited I’d love to have a second life in Spain. Seville, to be exact. I’d call myself Anita and live the life of a (somewhat mild) hippie. Anita would live in a sprawling, rustic cottage in a cobbled street and be a reasonably well known, slightly eccentric artist, whose work graces renowned art galleries around the world (thank god there’s no license for imagination).
She would also have a holiday home near the coast; equipped with an art studio, a horse named Lola and an elderly couple (Mr. and Mrs. Pablo) to look after the villa when she’s away. Anita’s sporadic bursts of artistic genius are usually marked by long absences, where she mysteriously disappears to Sri Lanka, takes on the life of a hormonal teenager, moans about growing up and vents on a blog under a too-long pseudo name.
There you go. That’s my second life.
What’s yours then?
The sky’s the limit.
>I live mine everyday. Like you mention, imagination has no bounds. One day you could be Ironman and the next you’re slowly creeping through a forest Sam Fisher style.What’s with Anita?
December 15, 2008 at 8:34 am
>I’m liv, living with 5 sisters in 1799 england, a voracious reader and walker of the countryside. During one of these walks, a tall, handsome stranger named..er…warcy, happens to fall in love with me and says,Miss Liv, In vain have I struggled, it will not do. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.” To which henceforth I will swoon into his arms and be taken away.2nd life i’d like isss….as Tara, of mixed exotic parentage, living in the cobbled streets of florence as an owner of a little but sought after coffee shop of artisans and poets. I serve them expressos while listening to the intellectual hobnob and breifly fall in and out of love with disturbed poets and painfully thin artists.. *grin**sigh*
December 15, 2008 at 8:49 am
>I’m a fat sacred cat in ancient Egypt. I sleep all day under a shady tree while nubile handmaidens bow to my every meow. men worship me for good luck.Sigh. Purr.
December 15, 2008 at 11:12 am
>Hmmm… I was to be a Princess who lived centuries ago.. the good life.. luxuries.. and a hot prince to go with it!
Modern day, just want a good and peaceful life.. always happy.. no worries.. lots of cash…enough luxuries… and want to be one of those figures who donate alot..and help the needy..:) Sports car…. great mansion… an awesome cook… and everything else that goes with the package!:) oh well.. if only… 
December 15, 2008 at 11:24 am
>i want to be a *
December 15, 2008 at 11:24 am
>u kno sometimes i wish i wasnt born or dint exist… then it wudve saved so many ppl so much of heartache..
December 15, 2008 at 4:52 pm
>”you may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one” a dreamer you certainly are… hehe
I don’t have a second life… I don’t want one… I’d rather have a remote control for my one like in Click 
December 15, 2008 at 5:27 pm
>spiderman
December 15, 2008 at 6:28 pm
>Dreaming is good for your soul but in my second life, I want to be me!GF, DeeCee,LD Grab the trilogy “The Baroque Cycle” by Neil Stephenson, if you like biiiiig books and fantasies closer to real life.
December 15, 2008 at 6:46 pm
>mm wil do kalu
December 16, 2008 at 7:31 am
>Just B Yourself and Achieve your Goals in Life.. Then someday just someday someone would like to be like you =D ~Peace~
December 17, 2008 at 4:57 am
>Jerry, lol. Good on you. Hey, Anita’s pretty cool ok!Deecee, hahahahahaha. Anita will def be a patron of your cafe!drama queen, tee hee. I like!LD,
yup, lots of cash never hurt anyone!finrod, egads. Thats morbid thinking. I’m sure things aren’t all that bad.Mr. Fallen, remote controls? Bah. you boring person, you.anon, very original. 
kalu, thanks. will def check it out!disease, never looked at it that way! Interesting POV..
December 18, 2008 at 12:32 pm
>Ye gods no, I have enough on my hands with one life and four faces to wan to deal with two and eight!Live Gutterflower, go do things you never thought you would – walk in the rain, splash in a puddle, wrestle a dog, eight five flavors of ice cream at one sitting, learn to dance or knit, or make a kite and fly it
December 19, 2008 at 4:05 pm
>Hi! Just dropped by your blog while browsing random sri lankan ones and I love what I’ve read so far! I’m the Dalai Lama in another life but no one believes me.
December 19, 2008 at 9:06 pm
>Sound advice sigma! Slightly bound by social norms, but I’m definitely doing my best.Makuluwo, I believe you, don’t worry! Heh.
April 2, 2009 at 6:12 pm