I was an active reader, all my life.
When I went on holidays my cousins begged me not to bring books and just to be silly at least a week.
I found it hard not to read, at some point, at about 20, I almost entirely stopped reading books, I have probably read just 15 books in the past 5 years, which would be very uncommon for me because I used to read about 40 books a year before then. I was an active reader from the age of nine to twenty.
But after 20 I kind of lost the ability to self reflect, I became much less introspective than before, I don’t know whether it was the stress of moving out and finally start living like an adult or what was that but I just couldn’t put my heart into reading anymore. I lived a life as If I was a totally different person. Without the depth that was always the part of my personality.
After the break up, lots of things changed for me and I finally came to the peace of mind and realized that I can read books again, I enjoy it more than ever and I find peace in it. I am really happy I got back to my old habit of reading, since I believe with other benefits reading can be therapeutic as well.
I don’t plan wasting all my free time reading, since my life is much more interesting and I am fond of having wonderful adventures and amazing new hobbies, but I am definitely happy that I got this old habit of mine back and I feel like maybe something about us never changed. Maybe we can act differently for 5 years for 6 years even but it’s still us deep inside and someday our old selves will pop up and say “Hey, it’s time to look back and remember who you really are and what you really like.”
