girlfriend in a coma

read one of the books i bought before the bar. girlfriend in a coma by douglas coupland.

before buying it i read the first page. it starts with "I'm Jared, a ghost." okaaay. interesting enough. it seemed like fun.

and since i was on a book buying rampage (to calm my nerves before the bar) i bought it.

finally got to read it. it's about a group of friends. one of them has weird dreams and after making love with her boyfriend (for the first time) on top of a ski mountain, she goes drinking a lapses into a coma. (the ghost guy eventually explains that she went into a coma because she wanted to escape the events in her visions. her system went independent and actually induced itself to go into a coma. weird.)

9 months later she gives birth to a baby girl. prolific boyfriend. one shot deal. she wakes up 17 years later and starts predicting the end of the world. and it does end. but the group of friends survives.

i finished it and ended up depressed. i don't know if it's particularly depressing or it's just me. all i know is that after i read it i felt like i wanted to go into a coma, so i wouldn't have to go through the events that led to the end of the world.

apparently, people stopped asking questions and stopped growing. they weren't living anymore.

it scared me. maybe we're not living. just going through the motions, to quote buffy.

it seems we go through life just to get it over with. sure, there's the occasional highlight but then... what?

sigh. maybe it's just me. but that book made me want to read an inspirational book. so i searched through my sister's books and got og mandino.

desperate, huh?

one more thing though, i hope i never end up wanting to go into a coma to escape life.