Atrophy
... enjoy this coming out of rut rant Crazy how going back to the things you adored as a child is what makes you feel most alive. Before you filled your time, your head, your heart with the things that are supposed to matter more. Before the heaviness set in. Me personally? I was a reader. Huge on reading. A bunch of other things too, we’ll get into that later I used to punch through a Harry Potter book in two, two and a half days. The smaller ones, like Order of the Phoenix , would take a day, maybe a day and a half if the homework was a lot lol. These days? I try to do Book of the Month (keyword: try). But once in a while, I pick up a book I can’t put down. One I relish . And in those moments, it’s not a chore. It’s a return. To the thing I love. Completely. Wholeheartedly. I also think our education system ruined reading for a lot of us. Somewhere along the way, it stopped being about curiosity and started being about how much you can cram. My dad always says, “To know is...