I am a book obsessed freak. I do not deny it. Either I have a mental disorder, or I’m not the only one in this obsessive state of mind.

Reading books isn’t only a past time time thing for me. Most people tend to waste away there time by reading books. But for me, free time just tend to be not enough to satiate my liking. i know what’s wrong with me, my father calls me an obsessed reader. He says that I’m the type of person who can’t put a book down until i flick the last page. Which is unfortunately true.

I read a book and never let it down, until I’m done with it. I’m a fast reader. I haven’t estimated my time yet or calculated my time when reading so i have no idea really on how fast I can go. But thanks to my being a fast reader, it makes my reading easier, it makes “wanting to finish the book” a lot bearable for me.

I love reading books, and a lot of people hate me for it. My parents rant about it a lot. They keep saying that I’m wasting my time in reading books, when in fact I should be studying. I understand that they just want me to do better in school, but locking my books as a threat? Okay, they didn’t actually lock my books, which is a relief. They never got around to doing it. I guess they were just busy or they just kept forgetting it. But I’m thankful never the less.

They were right to worry. I was losing my touch in the academic and social world. I was half-failing my grades. My projects were half done. I tend to forget about my homework and cant answer a teacher right when asked. I was losing contact with my friends. I don’t know how i survived that. But i usually brought a book in school, so that i can read it when nobodies talking to me.

How ironic. I didn’t like to talk to them.

It’s not exactly that I don’t like to talk to them. It’s just that I want to really finish this book. I mean, and anyway they were doing other things. I was kind of sure that they won’t notice me. So I continued with my reading in their presence.

Somehow, I finally found a way to control my obsessive book behavior. I’ve been reading less books now. And only sometimes in the presence of others. I keep talking to everyone now. I put my schooling before books and guess what, I’m finally happy. (no more parents ranting about it)

I finally minimized my book obsessive behavior. But now I find something more obsessing.

The Computer.