I switched up the faces hehe :)
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I lost my love of reading thanks to idiotic school mandates. I read so many books in jr high, in high school we had a homeroom at the end of the day that you weren't allowed to do homework in, we were literally forced to read for 30 minutes. School admins thought this would ignite love for reading, instead it killed all of my joy for it. Nothing like sitting next to a sunny window thinking about how in just 23 more minutes you can go outside when you're being forced to read right there.
Then detention too, if you got detention you weren't allowed to do homework - because reasons I suppose. (Doing poorly in school? Getting detention? Well good luck, you can't do homework here sucker!) So of course, more forced reading time. How did no one think that we would associate reading == punishment?
So now I find it incredibly difficult to read, and I hate it. All I think about is all of the other things I could be doing.
It was the opposite for me. I got into books because of a recommended list my school sent us for summer vacation. Best thing that ever happened to me.
Do you enjoy audiobooks? You can listen to pretty much anything and go for a hike.
I got pretty big into them a while back when I had an hour commute before podcasts were a big thing.
I'd like to listen to audiobooks but it's hard for me to focus on them when I'm doing other stuff, especially outside/commute because of anxiety.
I do, the one positive about commuting is that I can listen to books. It's the physical act of reading now that's destroyed for me. I love books, being in bookstores, but sitting down to read feels like wasted time. On the commute it's hard for me to read and be in a moving vehicle, so audiobooks are great