Change is Possible - PC to Mac

It all started when I was a teenager.  In High School we had a special six weeks where we got to choose a “career” oriented class.  Personal computers were getting a little bit of buzz so I decided to take the computing class which was based on Apple computers.

I was drawn immediately.  The yearning was incredible.  During that six weeks I felt contentment … fulfilled even.  I won a contest by programming a little green star that turned in on itself and back out repeatedly.

That very year, 1985, when I was in the Tennessee YMCA Youth Legislature I wrote a bill mandating computer courses be taught in High School because “computers are the way of the future.”

They laughed me off the house floor.

Then it was over … life took a dark and lonely turn.

Later, in 1990 I took a job in a computer room for a Fortune 500 company.  Everything was DOS based and while I learned quickly, that ache in my heart, my true computer orientation… sang a song of longing and discontent.

Then, Microsoft Windows 3.0 was released and I thought, “maybe this is the one?  maybe this will be my forever personal computing soulmate?”  But images of that little Apple computer would come back, unbidden, to my mind.  I lived a tormented life every time I sat down to that hollow cathode ray computer screen.

I won’t say I wept like big baby Brett Favre, but then again… I won’t say I didn’t either. ::: sniffle :::  Eventually I shut off my emotions and actually became a self-loathing Mac lover.  I would say things like, “the only thing a Mac is good for is a boat anchor.  Mac’s are sub-computers only good for being a paper weight…”

While laughing with my other MacPhobic friends … I died a little inside.

18 long years later, 18 years of windows updates, 18 years of bugs, 18 years of blue screens of death, add-ons, mandatory monopolistic mania marketed to the masses … 18 long years of hackers, viruses and unexplained crashes … I have abandoned what the culture demanded I embrace.  Today… I am blogging through the interface of my old childhood friend … an Apple computer … a Macbook.

While I am a little nervous engaging software I once thought taboo … I am … so happy.  I hope you will join me in my happiness … but if your pc PC closed mind won’t embrace my Macitude, that’s ok…. because … well … I am finally in my personal computing home.

I [heart] MacBook.

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