I used to really love to read and write and learn and somewhere along the way I stopped loving doing that in the same way. I used to read the back of cereal boxes and shampoo bottles as a kid because there was nothing else to read. I could read a novel a night and not in the light trashy novel kind of way but in the actually read things kind of way. And now I read blog posts and 4 page articles that feel too long to read online. My mom warned me that I wouldn’t love to read in the same way when I grew up, but I want to read in the same way I used to.
This, but I was never warned. I had no idea I was going to cease to have an attention span. I always thought it was little kids who were unable to sit still and concentrate, but I am far worse at it now.
I believe you can get it back. I’ve been working on getting mine back for over a year now, and it’s happening slowly, but surely. If I didn’t have studying to contend with, I imagine the process would be much, much faster.
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