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2016-06-22 16:41:38 Post No. 8195530
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2016-06-22 16:41:38
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Lit, how do I just get over my own head and read? I keep holding myself to some sort of standard, I stare at a page and get frustrated sometimes because I feel like I'm not comprehending sentences fast enough. I find myself staring at a page and telling myself that I've been staring at it for too long. I feel like I should be a faster reader, and that if I'm not then it's because I simply don't have the brain capacity, which I feel is false because if I were to simply relax and not take things so seriously, I could get so much more reading done because it wouldn't matter how fast I read the book, as long as I just finish it instead of getting discouraged; reading speed doesn't matter, comprehension and retention matters which I think I am pretty good at.
I still can't get over it though. Staring at a page, I get so frustrated when there's a word that I don't know. I am always choosing literature which uses references to things which don't exist anymore in our modern society, or words that are obscure that I'd have to look up the definition of. It's things like these that also make me feel discouraged from reading. Maybe when you read higher level stuff (whatever standard that may be), you should be feeling that way to some degree? I wonder if I just have a very skewed perspective of what it means to be a "good reader". People keep telling me also that I probably just don't like reading, except I want to love reading and I want to enjoy the experience of reading a book, I can imagine all the incredible stories and information out there inside of books that could become mine, and the experience and emotions within the texts that I could feel. I want that stuff, except it's just been difficult for me lately. I just put down Knut Hamson's hunger after 3 pages.
