Life can be thorny. Bloom anyway.

I decided to take a break from SL for a few months and the day I logged back in I received an IM from an old friend whom I hadn’t spoken to in years. She was annoyed because I removed her from my friends list and basically told me it was my loss because she was going to ask me to walk in a runway show that she was putting on for her fashion brand. Since we’re not friends anymore, or rather that I didn’t consider her a friend, then she wasn’t going to consider me for the show, is basically what she ended up telling me.  I apologized and told her that it wasn’t anything personal but we hadn’t spoken in years and I felt she’d moved on with her SL.  I mentioned that it had nothing to do with whether I liked her or not. I did, in fact, and very much so, actually.

So why did I remove her as a friend? WE DON’T SPEAK WITH EACH OTHER AND HADN’T FOR YEARS! What I didn’t tell her, and what I should have said, was that I removed her from my list almost a year ago and she just noticed?!?  I removed a lot of people from my friends’ list at that same time because I didn’t speak with them anymore and I am not the type to acquire people on my friends’ list just so I feel like I’m popular. I figured if I really needed to speak with any of them, or vice versa, we could just search each other from within SL and send an IM.  Was I wrong?  Another friend of mine told me she just keeps people as friends even if she’s only spoken to them once and they’ve friended her.  I got the feeling that she thought I should just keep everyone on my list.  It’s too late now, but seriously, is there some sort of “friends’ list etiquette” that I didn’t abide by?  Let me know your thoughts.

D E T A I L S:
T1S – BOM ABOUT YOU EYESHADOW @C88
[the Skinnery] Pilar skin
PunkList//: Arlet Hair
–Pixicat– Natalia Dress @C88
Insomnia Angel . Haronia sleeves @C88
Meva Tassles Earring @Uber
[Gos] Courtney Chain Booties – Fuchsia
Background: (Fundati) Opuntia Cactus With Prickly Pear I

*Also wearing Maitreya Mesh Body – LaraX V1.1 ~ and ~ Lelutka EvoX Billie 4.0 head