Yo! It's starting to get noisy outside because it's new year's eve and the neighborhood kids are lighting up fireworks. Fireworks are pretty but we really should ban it from civil use. Some people prefer sleep more y'know.
Last new year's eve and the years before I spent them with my friends from middle school but not this year. On this new year's eve I've just finished working (who works on a new year's eve tho!? (Me because I love my job ehehe)). I thought it was still too early to sleep so I decided to write something before the year ends.
I'm not the type to make new year's resolutions, some "new year new me" BS because well I think you don't need to wait until 1st of January to start being a better person. But nevertheless, I got some goals and stuff I want to achieve in 2019 so here is one of them.
B O O K S .
I love to read ever since I was a fetus. I read anything that interests me: manga, novels, articles, people's blogs. One of the things that I like to do is trying to analyze the personality of a manga/anime character using the theories I read in my text books from university. Not that it made my GPA rocketed up but I find it amusing. So when I came to realization that my interest towards books has been decreasing over the years, I feel sad. I had this conversation a few days ago with my two friends who are also huge nerds, that they have been feeling the same way. For me, it's not that I don't like to read anymore. I still read, lots actually, but mostly manga. Fiction novels hardly ever interest me anymore, especially fantasy stuff. Even when I do get interested at a book, it was always non-fiction. I dunno I barely relate to what fiction has to offer now.
Realizing this, I tried to pick up some books at the end of 2017. Tomorrow is 2019 and I barely finished them. I'm a slow reader, but the fact that I didn't finish even just three books actually saddens me. ㅠㅠ These are what I read:
I get bored extremely easily, it's not that the books are bad or boring. It's really just me who can't maintain my attention (can I blame social media for this?). Even now I have picked another book (and still haven't finished it also). This is what I've been reading since November 2018:
And so yesterday I watched PewDiePie's video about the books he read in 2018:
It's obviously clickbait. He didn't read 721. He read 72 books. BUT STILL. THAT'S AN AMAZING NUMBER.
So I decided that in 2019, I would try to read more. Not just books with a bunch of illustrations in them. Prolly one book a month? 30 mins of reading a day? I dunno, but being able to finish at least one is an achievement for me.
Yep let's see if I can make it true or if this is just a lip-service.
May we all become the better versions of ourselves this year.
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