Sometimes you can't realize you're in a bad mood until another person enters your orbit.
Douglas CouplandI say โUhmm...โ a lot. I mentioned this to Karla and she says itโs a CPU word. It means youโre assembling data in your head - spooling.
Douglas CouplandSometimes I think the people to feel the saddest for are people who are unable to connect with the profoundโpeople such as my boring brother-in-law, a hearty type so concerned with normality and fitting in that he eliminates any possibility of uniqueness for himself and his own personality. I wonder if some day, when he is older, he will wake up and the deeper part of him will realize that he has never allowed himself to truly exist, and he will cry with regret and shame and grief.
Douglas Coupland