Avenue de Lafayette
Boston, Massachusetts
USA
39.2° F (4° C)
'Forgive me doctor, for I have sinned. It has been a year since my last cleaning. I have been flossing, but it's possible I have not flossed as I should have...' This is how I usually start annual dental checkup/cleaning session. But it seems I need to extend my confessional practice into another realm: blogging; 'forgive me readers, for I have sinnned. It's been too long since my last entry...' I feel I need to confess my non-diligence and ask for forgiveness. What little regular readership I had, I have lost with long hiatuses in between entries.
My life has been on a hyper-drive. Many a night was spent trying to deliver what my company has promised and where my predecessor failed/neglected to deliver. Many blogging moments have come and gone. I would often turn a blind eye to the urge using fatigue as the principal excuse. The creative soul withered with each passing to a point where it only musters a whimpered whenever blogging moments revealed themselves. But, somehow, a midlife dad with a 15-inch MacBook Pro rejubinated my need to blog.
The Apple emblem glowing off of a sleek titanium casing used to symbolize the free-thinking, stylish, non-comprimising individuals who seek quality above and beyond the norm. Wielding a Mac meant you were a creative rebel who refused to surrender to the mainstream... Being a Mac user in the old days required acuity and wit to survive in a world dominated by mediocrity with its messy registries and error/crash prone Windows operating systems. Those days are long gone... Whenever travelers are required to divulge the secrete mobile computing habits, too many have revealed sleek Macs; high school kids, midlife crisis dads, and tech-savvy elderly... Mac is well on its way to becoming the norm.
Isn't this what I had prophesized and evangelized all these years? It was only natural for everyone else to catch on to the fact that Apple (with Steve Jobs at the helm) produced wonderful things. What surprised me was my own displeasure at Mac becoming the norm. After much thought, I had realized I am shallow after all. I let the fact that average Joe (more like midlife crisis Joe) was enjoying superior quality piece of machine affect the way I feel about my own Mac. Correction. I let what others may think (equate me with average midlife crisis Joe) affect how I feel about Mac ownership.
Alas... I still have much to learn... and grow...
