It’s like the corporate world’s full of ghosts … maybe a fairer way of putting this would be to say that adulthood’s full of ghosts … these people who’ve ended up in one life instead of another and they are just so disappointed … They’ve done what’s expected of them. They want to do something different but it’s impossible now, there’s a mortgage, kids, whatever, they’re trapped … High-functioning sleepwalkers, essentially.

It’s like the corporate world’s full of ghosts … maybe a fairer way of putting this would be to say that adulthood’s full of ghosts … these people who’ve ended up in one life instead of another and they are just so disappointed … They’ve done what’s expected of them. They want to do something different but it’s impossible now, there’s a mortgage, kids, whatever, they’re trapped … High-functioning sleepwalkers, essentially.

– Emily St. John Mandel –

Station Eleven

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