Reading addiction…

Have you ever experience feeling hard to sleep at night because you have not done something during the day…? You feel something is absolutely missing and you keep on thinking of it and can’t sleep a wink. Your heart beat faster and it make you pissed. You closed your ears tightly with your pillow. Still you can’t sleep…you addicted to something…

When I think of it, I was force to read during school days. The teacher asked us compulsarily to read at least 3 books in a month. What I did was I didn’t read anything but just pick any books in the library and copy the title so as the proof. We have this competition that who read most will win. I still remember that I never finish a book those time. No books are interesting to me.

Then in another school we were force to read again. Each time after recess the school allocate a few minutes just to read. We need to read in the presence of teacher in front of the class. I remember that even the teacher said the it was wasting time. Reading has become somekind of ordeal to endure during school time.

However, I actually never hate reading. I love reading comics. Then when school days are long gone I started to buy magazines. I also worked at a bookstore once and bought novels. My interest are none other than computers, computers, and computers. Novels of my interest would be science fiction and fantasy like Harry Potter and Lord of the Ring. I also read Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons. Those are among others that made me fall in love with novels. And not forget to mention my favourite To Kill A Mocking Bird.

Nowadays, I read ‘paper’ far lot less and actually haven’t read ‘paper’ material for quite sometimes. I read e-books and internet web pages. Still my favorite topic is computers. Internet provide me with endless information and reading material. I can spend my whole day reading about computers. When I read everyday the whole week the whole month, it becomes habit and what I call addiction. I can’t sleep unless I read something first. It help me to ease my night.

Also urge to know something “out of my door” made me addicted to news. Luckily I have radio to listen to them and I need not to read everything.

I found out that during school we were forced/asked to read and even when the material was extremely interesting we try to reject reading them just because the fact that they are academic. We turn to comic and worthless stuff. But now we have Wikipedia which appear to be so interesting and so reader friendly. Learning/reading could never be so boring anymore as to go through boring pages of textbook…

In the nutshell…I am addicted to reading…(look at my News reader shot below courtesy of Liferea and Ubuntu)

My News Reader Screenshot