Everyone has a special place they store their tension (I'm on shiatsu duty), the same way everyone misspells the same words over and over. Karla stores her tension in her rhomboid muscles, and I remove it. This is making me feel good. That I can do this.
Douglas CouplandIt was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that make us who we are? Do we understand the factors that make us do the things we do?
Douglas CouplandWhen you're young, you always feel that life hasn't yet begunโthat "life" is always scheduled to begin next week, next month, next year, after the holidaysโwhenever. But then suddenly you're old and the scheduled life didn't arrive. You find yourself asking, 'Well then, exactly what was it I was havingโthat interludeโthe scrambly madnessโall that time I had before?
Douglas Coupland