Are you drowning in unread books? Here is a word you need in your life.
From Brain Pickings
If there is a word for what you’re facing, life seems so much more rational.
After months of floundering, I am back to my reading habit. Everything is manageable if you read books—your mind sounds more orderly. I tried various countermeasures: declaring a moratorium on book-buying, reading the short books first, reading short stories to rebuild my mental stamina…
What really worked for me: Lockdown. I had a manuscript to finish and had somehow let it slide. Sure I was writing, but not fast enough. So I went into lockdown and did not leave my house until the manuscript was done. (Obviously I had to lay in my food and necessities supply before lockdown began.) Initially my mind kept coming up with reasons to go out, but eventually I hunkered down and got my work done. And since I was spending all my time at home, with few distractions, I started reading again. Finished four mid-size books in two weeks.
After three days in lockdown, though, I started turning into Jack Nicholson’s character in The Shining so I sent an SOS to my friend Tina and we had lunch the next day. I just had to have an actual conversation (and we kept running into people we wanted to see, so there were many conversations). And then I went back to work.
The question that snapped me out of my funk: If I don’t read books and I don’t write, what am I?
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