So I guess I've come around on the matter of resolutions. I'd say I'm still keepin' it real and that these are more hopes for the year. This final one is one that I most defienitely should be able to manage: reading.
I used to read all the time. As a child, reading was my primary for of entertaiment, and even as I grew to gain more of those, reading remeained a favorite pass time. I read books well above my level and in copious. The effects were evident in my vocaublary first and foremost and showed in ertain knowldege that I had as well. Of course the more you read the better you write. All of these wonderful positive sideeffects of reading made me want to read that much more, but aboce all else, I just loved a good story. And though I seldom read anymore, the fact is, I still love a good story. So why did I stop reading?
The first reason is an easy guess: time. I seem to have run out of it since leaving childhood. With age we take on more obligations than most of us probaly bargained for. And each new one seems to take just a little more time than the last. Growing up is some kind of adventure I guess, but sometimes, it's exhausting. By the time I see how much time I have left for the things you would like to do, it's hard to decide which activities will make the cut.
The next factor is the amount of obligatory reading you deal with as you get older. College first and foremost will require more reading than is humanly possible. So I develop a skill for skimming and half-reading that sill takes somewhere near forevier.
Thease two factor combined oftern mean that reading for pleausre seems less pleausurable and more like another task to be completed. Now I find my stories on tv and in movies. And those are great, but they do little for for my mind in the process. Furthermore, they leave little the imagination, whereas reading opens boundless fields for imagination.
This year I want to read more, and I intend to start with the book everyone has been telling me to read (for two years now): The Faulit in Our Stars, by John Green.
