How do you cope?

Let me begin by saying that everything happens for a reason, and that there are just some things that can't be helped. While this may not make things better at the time, in the long run, this is something that should be remembered.

We all come on to SL and relationships begin to build, be it they be a friendship, a love, or something that would be close to family. I am one who believes that the relationships you make over SL, or anything similar, are real. They are true because of the emotions and the feelings. With that said, when I care for someone, it runs deep. I appreciate the people that I have met, they have influenced my life in some way, form, or fashion and I hope that continues.

Now to one of the points of this post. When you meet someone, and a bond starts to form, then you lose that bond over time, because of different paths or RLs being too busy or whatever, how do you deal with it? Do you just move on from that person or do you run to them with open arms when they come back? This is something I am dealing with with someone very important to me and it is something one of my friends and I discussed the other night. It seems we are going through similar situations and it just made me wonder what others do. If it's a friend, it's sad, but it's not as difficult, I wouldn't think, as if it's a boyfriend/girlfriend or a partner. What do you do then? Do you just stay in the relationship? Do you cheat? I mean really? How do you deal with it? Especially if you don't talk much outside of SL... I don't know maybe it's just me.

The main point of this blog was the title. How do you cope? How do you cope when you find out that one of your good friends, one that you may or may not have lost touch with, but knew that you were still just as close, has passed away. Dealing with things like this has not been my strongest suit since I have had some pretty traumatic things happen in RL. But it's just a difficult and sad time right now and I just wanted to get some of this stuff off of my mind and into blog form.

Also, I wanted to thank all of my friends who have been there for me. You know who you are. It means the world to me, and more. I'm very blessed to have such a great group of friends. Love you all.

**And that's one thing that my friends passing has reminded me of. We need to make sure that those we love know exactly how much we love them. Don't take one day for granted.**

R.I.P Scum, you will be missed dearly.