A lot of thoughts+feelings come to me about transience in Second Life. There are many memorials and monuments no longer there; some landowners have ceased to exist here, or they didn't continue to pay for their land tier. And still, there's abandoned land which has yet to be claimed, "ghost clubs" and "phantom casinos" still visitable and playable although the owner is long gone.

There's relationships that ultimately didn't work out, including some that were written about in New World Notes?showing a parallel to the news of the offline world. To much beauty, there've been the equivalent of celebrity weddings which have continued being strong to this day.

I'm deliberately being vaguer than usual because this is an amorphous cloud I wrestle with; more tipped on principle than any specific nuances. Broader brushstrokes for a bigger picture. Perhaps recognizing transience in several ways, a lot of Residents already use their Profile Picks to highlight not locations, but people. This includes lovers, best buds, and those who have moved on?I see the reference to "we're still in touch but she's not in SL anymore".

My understanding of the sentimentality is limited but I do know from some experience that office workers like to cozy up their workplaces with personal items: it seems to be common that a businessman puts a framed picture of the wife and kids. Some have the pictures of dearly departed, like a grandma who fell ill in an untimely way (but don't we all) and passed away. Just about no one has a picture up of an ex from a relationship where things went sour. Those, if not yet, have either been "dropped out" of plain sight or simply been destroyed.

But the memories live on.