8 years ago i was walking down a quiet rural street that cut through a wooded area. it was early spring, much like it is now in the Northern Hemi. i had one of my tweed Dead Man's jackets on and the sun was out but the air was still cool in that typical spring morning chill way.
i was, as i usually am when i walk alone, deep in thought. so it caught me by surprise when all of a sudden this perfectly beautiful young hippiesque girl materialized on the road a few yards away from me walking in the opposite direction.
"isn't it a beautiful day today?," she asked as she approached, as though we were good friends and had been forever. we passed, and both turned on our heels so as to keep facing the other without stopping. almost choreographed it would seem in retrospect. we both smiled, she spread her arms out beneath her poncho making angel wings. slender fingers on the ends of equally thin hands.
"yes, i love the spring," i said directly into her eyes
"indeed. we are truly blessed." and then we both turned our backs on each other, smiles echoing off the trees, and walked on. i never saw her again.
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Don’t you think it will go the same way between linux and windows users if all the best open source applications are available on XP: “we both turned our backs on each other, smiles echoing off the trees, and walked on. we never saw it again.”
Just kidding (or not) ;)
As a mandriva (ex mandrake) user, I appreciate what you do for the OSS community, keep up the good work!!
Is there a moral to this story? Are you lamenting the road not taken?
> Are you lamenting the road not
> taken?
not at all.
it's more about how a person can have a permanent and positive impact upon another with a simple gesture, a beautiful spirit, a sharing of personal truth.
how we are blessed, even if we sometimes forget because life makes it hard to remember. and how there are people out there who will help remind us.
these things only take a moment, but they last a long time. it was 30 seconds on a road on an otherwise unsurprising day and i still remember it with great clarity 8 years later.
so i felt liking sharing it =)
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