Epiphany o' the Day

I had just logged on the Second Life when I got an IM about a discussion about games - I went to it and it gave me an epiphany about why this all seems very much as usual to me.

I'm from one of those typical English families that is spread out across the globe. After we moved from Canada to the USA I didn't have any but my immediate family in the same country, and that was just normal. My brother left after about a year or so, and then only part of my family was in the same country. That was normal. We were always a contained unit and I never felt anything other than an English person living in a foreign country (I was brought up to feel separate). That's the same way I feel now.

I listened to people at the discussion talking about how, since the internet, and because of Second Life more particularly, they could meet and talk with others from all over the globe. They said it felt to them as though boundaries are gone and globalisation on its way to becoming real. ZOMG. I suddenly realised that's how it's always been for me. No wonder this seems like business as usual.

I don't really believe in time and space anyway. That's probably another story, though.