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The true win, though, was that I could turn off my brain by reading.
My mind has been wandering for as long as I remember. I can’t get through a television show or a meal or a single conversation without it going somewhere else unrelated and unnecessary. And if I don’t go with the thought, it just sits there, heavy and distracting, until I acknowledge it. It’s exhausting.
That same day, I ran to a bookstore and bought a dozen books. None of them were classics. None of them were beneficial to my brain or written as “self-help.” But each of them was good for my soul. Each of them let me get lost and turn off my brain. Live in happily ever afters and watch the drama unfold and then wrap up neatly, unlike the real world.
That day, I realized I needed to live to make myself happy.
