A celebration is occurring as my friend is not engaged, her boyfriend popping the question in beautiful Hawaii. So why am is marriage like a rooted Android phone. Well, because when you go from boyfriend and girlfriend to husband and wife, its like going from the sameness of the stock ROM to the adventurous, and customizable custom ROMs. Sound confusing? Well here we go. Bear with me, and you’ll see the connection.
When you’re an unmarried couple, there’s a sense of freedom and fear, just like rooting your phone and installing a custom ROM. You can pick any theme, any ROM, and if you don’t like it, you can change it. You also go into the new ROM knowing that it may not work, and it may even crash and burn on you. This makes the developers work harder to keep you around.
The same applies to an unmarried relationship because you know that any beak up is relatively simple if you’re unhappy, but there’s a fear that it’s just as easy for the other person to leave. The strings aren’t as tightly attached, and if you really want to keep your significant other around, you’re going to have to work harder to keep them. Like a developer.
Then there’s the married couple, or the stock ROM. Yeah, its comfortable, familiar, and the same thing ever day. Yeah, on occasion you’ll get that OTA update, or your spouse does something to spice things up, but its not necessarily all that often. After awhile, having the same thing every day, there is the chance of you getting tired of it. Why do you think there are OTA updates? To keep you interested in the OS and the phone. But you can’t do that in a marriage. There’s a comfortability in marriage that makes us lazy. You start trying less, you’re willing to settle with what you have.
Yeah, you can tell I’m in favor of one over the other. I have nothing against marriage, because A LOT of people have made it work. Just like I have nothing against whatever is stock on my phone. But, there’s a reason why the divorce rate is the way it is. Marriage is a dying institution, where divorce is slowly becoming the new norm.
