Last night I picked up a copy of Douglas Coupland’s Microserfs. I’ve read it before but it’s been a long time. There was a passage that I’m sure I would have been unmoved by when I read it the first time but on this reading it really stood out.
Do you remember that old TV series, Get Smart? You remember at the beginning where Maxwell Smart is walking down the secret corridor and there are all these doors that open sideways, and upside down and gateways and stuff? I think everybody keeps a whole bunch of doors just like this between themselves and the world. But when you’re in love, all of your doors are open, and all of their doors are open. And you roller skate down your halls together.
The last few weeks have been hard but I wouldn’t give them up for anything. I opened my doors and though there was no roller skating, I did let someone walk down my corridor. In the end I didn’t have what she was looking for and that makes me sad but it was nice to have someone check the place out again.