Though I am capable of reading, I really don’t like to. I’ve always found that my spare time should be spent in front of the tv. I know most people would disagree with this. In my childhood, my mother tried to get me into reading the Harry Potter books, (as this was the thing that most kids were into at the time.) While I did physically look at the pages, I never seemed to enjoy the book and when asked to describe what happened, I always said, “I don’t know/I don’t care” ETC. She also tried to get me to read other books in general and the same thing happened. I would show a lack of interest in reading the book and would be unable to give a description of what I just read. This frustrated mom and I even lost some tv privileges as a means of motivation to get me to keep reading. Each day, I would be tasked with reading one or more chapters of a book and if I couldn’t give a proper description of what the chapter was about, I would lose tv privileges. I’ve just never been an avid reader of any kind. I’ve always preferred to watch tv and absorb knowledge from that. This problem I’ve had has carried into my adult life and at 34 years old, soon to be 35 years old, I still don’t care much for books. With this type of attitude, you would think I don’t want to do anything educational or noteworthy in my life. It was like this for the longest time. Even though I have a computer, for six months, I used it only to pay for my bus pass claiming it did not work. Though I did not read books, I had a knack for writing good stories in school which actually earned me some praise from teachers and mom as well. Everybody thought I could be an author with the gift I had of writing such wonderful children’s stories. However, a combination of too much time off from this as well as a desire not to do anything educational with my life post school caused me to lose my knack to write children’s stories. Attempts at rekindling this passion of mine failed as all of the stories I wrote turned out to be lack luster with predictable endings, ETC. As most people who use this site know, I have found a different passion of reviewing movies that I watch. As well, I’m in the process of writing an autobiography at the suggestion of mom.
The point is that I do not have a reading space. This does not mean I can’t read. I just have no desire to. As for my writing space, well, it’s already built. As a matter of fact, I’m using it now. It’s the same place where I write all of my movie reviews, (the next one of these may even be tonight,) and the place where I will eventually finish my autobiography.
I’m not a reader but look at it this way. Every book needs to be written. Isn’t that right? If a book wasn’t written, how could it be read? I’m just one of those people….people who would prefer to put books on the shelf for people to read rather than read it myself.
In saying this, I want to make one thing clear. I can read a book…but I would rather write them and I already have the space to do so.
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