Getting over a little bump
Earlier this year, I challenged myself to read 52 books. I've seen the challenge before and thought it sounded fun.
It... has been going ok? I think. It's certainly been fun. It's been making me read books that have been collecting dust.
I'm definitely behind two or three books, but I feel I can make up for it. What really kills me, and this has been a persistent problem for me, is that I'll go through phases where I don't want to read. I don't know why. Sometimes, I simply don't want to read.
It's quite random, too. It'll come out of nowhere, even when the book I'm reading is good, and it'll last for who knows how long. Sometimes it'll only be a week or two, like how it just happened, and other times it'll be literal months.
It's a bit of a procrastination issue, too. I'd think "Bah, I'll just read tomorrow" and I never do. Of course that snowballs until two whole months have passed and I've read fuck-all.
And because of what's happening in the world, you'd think I would hunker down and engross myself in fictional worlds. To get away from all the static. Nope. I just read the news, read expert analyses, and try to organize it all to the best of my ability. And maybe that's for the better. Maybe it's a good idea to keep up with current events and try to figure things out. To pilfer out some conclusion of where we're heading. Navigate the present by living in the future, I suppose.
I don't mean to come across as if I'm just now noticing what's going on. I'm very aware of conflicts, reported-on and forgotten, bad dealings, corruption, massacres, genocide, and what have you going on all around me. Trust me. It's just I was able to separate these two worlds: reading for pleasure and reading for learning / researching sake. Now it's all bungled up.
So I'm back to reading for pleasure again. Books, I mean. I've been finding a balance between fiction and what's in the news. Between science fiction worlds of spaceships and aliens and whatever this world is.
Anyway, not a particularly coherent post, but my thoughts aren't exactly coherent, either. Figured it'd help to write down a little something.
Take care.