All active and inactive membership, past Board of Directors, Staff Member, Hall of Fame members, Surfing Champions, SLSA Surfing Teams, Sponsors, creators, Sim owners’ hosts, Founding Members, and persons associated with the SLSA including present Directors Petra Xaris, Mick Lunasea, Annie Panties, Moira, and Kei Raven. I am wholeheartedly and sincerely sorry for any pain, grief or anguish I have caused this great association. I apologize for my attacks either in private, or with the Petition that I have created and circulated.
I have been a member of the SLSA on and off over the past 10 years. I have held many roles throughout my time and have grown as a person being a part of this great family of surfers. I have worked along side many of you, surfed with a lot of you, got to know many past and current members. Many of you have contributed to my own personal growth. My recent actions were unwarranted and I take full responsibility for them. I hope that with time, things will heal. I understand that if I did cause enough damage, that I may have broken that trust that many of you have come to know of me. My recent actions are not the characteristics that I have prided myself on. I let the past few months of personal anguish build and took the wrong avenue to express my displeasure. I fully know that there are much better ways that this could have been handled. Being a past director and advisor to the SLSA has taught me this. I have broken this trust and now must live with what I have caused.
In the past, I would leave Second life when things got overwhelming. Rather than lash out I found it best to step aside. At times, I would seek advise from a few of the members as well as they have always sought my advice. I would return from these hiatuses fully charged, with a new spirit and outlook on things. I know my actions could and should require actions by the Board. I will accept any discipline that is warranted. I also will step back for a small time to recollect myself. I am not leaving Secondlife or the SLSA. I feel I let this fun social group of spirited individuals affect my personal life and led me to irrational decision making. Within time, I hope to return and enjoy the sport I so dearly love, loved and will continue to love. I must make peace with myself for hurting individuals that I deeply regret causing pain. I have worked with them. I have helped them. They are great people who donate their time and efforts to maintain the best SLSA experience possible. Now, I hope they can find it in their heart to forgive me. Maybe not today, but with time.
Sincerely
GiavannaMarie Melody
(Gia Villano)
6/5/2019
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Aloha,
TO GIA
I was raised to always accept an apology when one is offered. It takes courage. I not only accept this apology, I offer my own up to Gia, for any part I played in your angst (I think we know what that is). I feel your tears, and I believe only the brain conflicts with an emotional heart and "initial" gut. Anyone who disagrees with your apology, I humbly would like to suggest they go be pro active some place else. I feel you did what you wanted to do.
IN ADDITION
Ultimately, we can all only control and be responsible for our own actions and words. It's painfully obvious by this apology that we who play this Second Life are emotionally attached to much of it. I get this because for almost three years I put up with some crazy shit in the SLSA that resulted in some weird and unnatural behavior from me. Having said all that, I'd like to publicly thank Johnny Whadd for his heart felt apology to me for our history and his campaign against me all those years. Kudos Bro, it took some balls to apologize and admit that to me. JW, you not still throwing shade are ya? Ha ha ha.
I keep seeing Sally's words..."First, do no harm."
Yeah, at the end of all of this, I admit to being frustrated to the point of fringe dancing on the cliff of madness over all the angst which I created in my response to bullshit rather than being "pro active". I got my pro active on now and I'm having a GREAT Slife. Git you some... stay or go from the SLSA, but it's been pointed out poignantly to me, it's not the SLSA, it's the humans in it.
Mahalo,
JT
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