A note on reading.

It has been long since I’ve approached the end of a book. So today as I hit a sweet spot with the final pages of The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green instead of beating myself over the sudden reluctance I cultivated for reading, I want to thank myself for being courageous enough to return. Having shelved a number of books, not returning to them even after promising I will, it was getting increasingly difficult to find a book to which I would stick, sufficiently interested, from page 1 to the last. Gratefully, with this collection of essays, I did reach back to reading. I may sound boastful but to have found the way positively in any direction amid the tiny, big turbulences of life which nowadays equals to surviving one wave after the other of COVID-19, is no little feat. So yes, from having achieved partial success in returning to books, reading and not merely collecting, the following are some lessons learnt.