Sloppy Seconds

Imitation can be an art, a way to honor someone who influences you in some way or whose footsteps you wish to follow while making your own path; nothing that's not worth some admiration is copied and it's in the personalizing where the true art lies.

This is true and applies to most artists, performers and public figures who have left an imprint in their particular sector by either being unique, offering something new or changing the way we perceived music or art.

In second life this concept is even truer, since being a user created platform, leaves an open space for original life performers, Deejays and impersonators who make a living or use their free time out of making art or sharing it with others.

This being said, what happens when you are the victim of "admiration" and someone decides to "follow in your footsteps" by recreating your life in every little detail? Can this be considered admiration or should it be labelled as psychosis?; there's a fine line in between the two, so one most be careful before blowing the "crazy whistle" and verbally abusing what could be simply considered as someone simply paying homage to all of those things you've done right.

Where does the difference lie? when that someone starts sleeping with the people you had slept with -which is simply sloppy seconds- and had some relevance or effect on your public life, that's no longer paying a homage. It could be me, but systematically sleeping with dudes you'd rather not see in your next 300 incarnations is hardly flattering, but that's me.

If anyone out there decides to float around you, being you but not really you and feeling awesome by checking the list of people you had in the past "first hand", power to them.

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