Progress

With books that can be read in a couple days or a week, it’s worthwhile to see the progress one makes as the book mark slowly reaches the last pages. But for longer books that take weeks or months to read, progress can seem barely noticeable, as if we just started when we actually read for hours.

But what keeps me going is not how many pages are left, or when the chapter will end, but simply the habit of reading. I know that if I read consistently, that no matter how long it takes, I will eventually reach the end. It could be just a few pages a day, or it could be a certain number of minutes, but as long as I stay consistent, the road towards the end will get shorter and shorter, until finally, I’ve reached the end.