Enjoying a Moment With a Book

Reading is part of my self-care but sometimes I want a little extra to take a moment and just exists. Not just to veg on a book but to really savor it. Sometimes I do this by making a cup of my favorite tea and finding a nice cozy place to curl up with the book other times I buy nice chocolates from a candy shop at the mall and enjoy them with my tea and book. I wish these moments happened more often but I am often too busy with work and now grad school that it is all I can do to get in a few chapters of reading. Sometimes my self-care is just reading a chapter or two before I fall asleep.

I think I sometimes feel guilty as a read that I don't read as many books as other readers do. That I am much slower at reading and so cannot read half a book in an hour. I am dyslexic and I have learned how to adapt well but I need to take my time. I have learned to accept that I am not a speed reader but I know I retain the plot and information I read well so perhaps it is not so bad. I am also learning to be okay with the fact that my life is just in a place where sitting for hours reading a book isn't practical. I have work and school now on top of other life obligations. I struggle with comparing myself to other readers and I need to learn to not compare. I am me and I read the way I read and it doesn't make me any less of a reader or bookish person.