"But, and I’m going to get a little personal here, that’s the essence of life, isn’t it? Sometimes you go through things that seem huge at the time, like a mysterious Glowing Cloud devouring your entire community. While they are happening, they feel like the only thing that matters, and you can hardly imagine that there’s a world out there that might have anything else going on. And then the GlowCloud moves on, and you move on, and the event is behind you. And you may find, as time passes, that you remember it less and less." oh wow, I almost started crying when I heard that. Also, "The Bus Is Late" slaps.