When 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 CouplandDo you think we enjoy hearing about your brand-new million-dollar home when we can barely afford to eat Kraft Dinner sandwiches in our own grimy little shoe boxes and we're pushing thirty? A home you won in a genetic lottery, I might add, sheerly by dint of your having been born at the right time in history? You'd last about ten minutes if you were my age these days.
Douglas Coupland