9.4.26
I've been reading a lot of books. This is not a recent change; I've always loved reading. However, during university, I took a very long break from any reading for pleasure as my course was so reading-heavy. It was only in my final year that I picked up a book for fun: The Scarlet Letter.

It wasn't the easiest book to get into after years without fiction, but I found myself nonetheless dragged into Hawthorne's world.

More than that, it was as though I had awoken from a trance each time I closed the book. My whole body had relaxed, my limbs felt like lead, my brain felt fuzzy. I found myself almost in a fugue state, like the world had suddenly stopped spinning beneath my feet.

This feeling wasn't specific to Hawthorne, either. Upon finishing that book, I began to read voraciously, like an appetite returning after eating a small morsel of food. Since leaving university and entering the world of work, this appetite has only grown. I continue to chase that feeling of dissolution - of completely losing myself in the words on a page. On the bus to work; in the park on a spring afternoon; lying in my bed and squinting in the half-dark, I seek that sense of mental weightlessness.

It is like falling asleep.

8.4.26
Took a LONG break to visit friends over Easter and now hoping to finish off this page. I still find it crazy how I can imagine an idea for a page in my head and then just create it.

27.3.26
I've recently begun creating this page as a way to share random thoughts or interesting things as a sort of microblog.

Inspired by Monothematica's site.