Second Life/Avitars

In Second Life I chose my avatars name to be StephKate Akina. My first name was simply the nickname of my first name and my middle name combined. I really couldn't tell you why I picked Akina for my last name besides I thought it was such a beautiful name! It was one of the first one's I saw and I had to have it. Its kind of strange to be a "default" shape. It makes me want to question why does the default of a woman look like this? Why is she a brunette? Why does she have a fit body? I guess I cannot complain about having such a perfect body, but I wouldn't even mind looking the complete opposite. I'm actually at a point in my life where I'm somewhat ok with my body so taking on whatever the default shape is really isn't that big of a deal I guess. The only thing I would really want to change is the hair color to blond because I am a blond!! Now I think maybe it would have been cool to make my avatar a man. I always joke that I would love to be a man for a day and I could have lived this desire through my avatar. The only good thing about Second Life is you don't know who the person is behind the avatar so you really can't (well shouldn't) judge the person based on what their avatar looks like. They could look like some demon, but have the most intelligent things to say. I don't really care if anyone knows who I am in Second Life. I haven't told anyone my avitar's name, but to me it doesn't matter either way. Maybe with the avatar I will have conversations with people I never would have before and maybe I won't think twice about saying certain things. This can be a great thing about Second Life. You can hide behind this avatar in a way. By using the avatar you can explore different ideas that you would normally be nervous doing so in "the real world."