I’m having an affair.
Unlike other relationships that you move heaven and earth for to keep I am not frozen by guilt or remorse to destroy mine.
The long years and the familiarity have not bored me; on the contrary, I have been continuously challenged.
Maybe that is part of the problem, the challenges have led to frustrations. Promises have been broken. Expectations have increased. So have failures.
I once flirted with Steve, enamored by his suaveness. Unfortunately, his elitist ways diminished the fire. And he was becoming too high-and-mighty for his own good.
So I have been trapped in Bill’s world. I allowed myself to be swayed by his sweet talk. All the empty words. All the manipulations.
The last straw came when he tried to innocently add a few thousands to my laptop purchase, under the guise of his new OS (“Baby, I promise, it looks beeyooteefool…”).
You SOB! You BSODed my old desktop enough times already!
“Ay, ma’am, XP na lang,” the technician offered.
So it was back to the Bill that I was used to.
But things were never the same with me again. I ditched IE for FF. I installed OpenOffice.
I wanted to be free.
It was not a surprise that I met Linus.
He does not talk in mindless riddles. He offers security, variety, transparency, efficiency, freedom. And all for free.
I have given it enough thought.
I’m breaking up with Bill. On my birthday.
I won’t write him a letter. I don’t want memories of him in my new reformatted life. Everything will be a clean install.
There will be no “It’s Not You” speech, because it is all because of you, Bill.
I know you don’t really care about me, not when you have your millions billions (at least you’re doing humanitarian work).
I should have done this a long time ago.
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(More of Ryan Cartwright’s Bizarre Cathedral at http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com)
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