Lesson #8

There’s always time to read if you make time.

I learned this from my children’s literature class I took a couple years ago. For homework, we were expected to read 40 minutes, at least five days a week. Each week we turned in a reading log, just like you probably did when you were in third grade. Forty minutes, five days. Not 10 here, 30 here, 260 there. For 5 days you had to read at least forty minutes.

Impossible sounding, I know. We were astounded when we found out that was what was expected of us. As college students we barely have time to sleep while getting all of our other homework done. How can we squeeze 40 minutes of reading into each day?

Well my friends, it is in fact possible. It’s not exactly easy, but if you say you’re gonna read for 40 minutes a day and you make an effort to, you will.

And you know what? It’s worth it! All you have to do is consciously decide that you’re going to make time to read and that time will be there. Sure, you might have to give up some facebook time, but I think everyone would be better off if they would give up some facebook time each day and do something more productive and educational , like read.

So if you're sitting there, wishing you had more time so you could read novels for purely recreational reasons, know that there is time, you just have to find it.