So I knew this chick, Artella, and she liked me a lot, like a
lot, so well, it's nice to have her around, she makes me laugh and is hot and everything, so now she is my girlfriend. Yeah, I know, I sound more like an adaptive man than a decision maker in the affairs of the heart. Actually I wish it was like that; since I adapted myself to the girlfriend situation, now the natural and adequate thing for me would be to fall for the girl and that's it. Artella knows that I was a bit neutral about her, and about everything in my life, she think that my color is gray, but if Artella only knew. I meet Ornella once in a technology convention and she dazzled me with her intelligent, funny and intellectual conversation. I added her to Facebook and after many likes here and there, we started dating. I wanted to know desperately more about her, and soon I found out we had the same passion: to discuss and read about the possible effects of technology in our world. Soon, too, I started to picture us drinking coffee together and then running to our respective jobs, sharing a life. I was enamored of her, so all our common interests were impregnated with this feeling. It was like if every cell, every atom, every breath had our colors mixed together. I got the girl, and the FOUR years we were together. It's been a year now, since we broke up, because the spark died (for her) and we left it as good friends. Now I am eating at Artella's parents house. They probably think I am a boring dude who doesn't care if its a rainy day or a sunny day, they don't know me. I swallow the food, laughing when I have to laugh and throwing controversial opinions here and there so I don't get too bored. But in my mind there's a ticking clock. Ornella is in a plane, coming back to our country, and the one we invented, with technological and economical disaster, will become a reality. We will be controlled by machines, drops of water will be more precious than the shiniest diamond, air will be poison. Artella will be gone by then, probably, but I will meet Ornella in a bench in the park, on Sundays, to talk about the weather, the tyranical boss and the newspaper, in one year and 40 years later. I will have my favourite star at the reach of my hand, and who knows, maybe Ornella will get Hornyella. I am eating at Artella's parents now, and I am a living corpse but now that Ornella is coming in a plane, trust me, my shadow coers all the space on the floor.