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I used to devour books like they were the only thing giving me life.

I still love books and reading; these days it just feels like I don’t have the time and energy needed to sit down and focus on a book long enough to finish it. I was starting to think that I had changed too much; maybe I wasn’t a reader anymore? But then I went on vacation.

It was nothing big, just a week off work spent in the Appalachian Mountains in Tennessee. After a couple of days of just existing without having to stress and work, I read a whole book in one sitting, just like I was 10 years old again.

I thought I had lost it, and I was right, but not for the reasons that I thought. What I thought was my brain being fundamentally changed by growing up and spending more time working with computers was actually just me starting to burn out.

In 2025 I want to read more, but to use it as a measurement of improvement. If I go through a whole month without finishing at least one book, then I have to step back, figure out where my energy is going that it maybe shouldn’t be, and make changes accordingly.

In 2025 I want to be happier and healthier, and I want to be able to look back at the end of the year and see if I actually was better than I was last year.