I´ll start with a statement: I haven´t slept that great for the past 26 days. But fortunately, this situation has been harnessed to achieve the amazing numbers that the current year is presenting. It comes as no wonder that this is probably the fastness I have arrived at the 10,000-page mark, it took on 20 days to do so. That means that my daily average is around 500 pages, which, I must confess, has come from the iridescent screen of my tablet, late at night, while I trek thru some wonderous world contained in the pages of Mangas.

Thanks to the consistency of my reading the first half of this goal is well within reach, as I stated in past posts, my goal was to achieve such a coveted milestone by the middle of September, well let me tell you that I´m there right now, with a projected date of September 16 of the current year, almost to the date of what my desire was, actually, a day earlier.

That leaves only 7,396 pages to brush that first half that I have been so desperately chasing, and quite frankly for a minute there, I wasn´t so sure that my willpower was enough to carry me home. More than once I would question whether this was truly something that was worth pursuing, as the world turns, this personal goal has become the breath that has kept me going.

But as always, my focus redirects to the next task at hand, which in this particular case would be getting the end of the journey closer to my 50th birthday. Right now the projected date to reach the 1,000,000-page mark is August 24, 2038, this puts me 7 years, 2 months, and 19 days behind schedule. Considering that on February 18 of this year, around 6 months ago, I was 9 years behind schedule, this giant leap is a step in the direction that I was hoping.

I´ll hold on to hope that these numbers keep decreasing as the months go by, of course, backed by the consistency of my reading and the acknowledgment that this journey will be sometimes a lonely one, full of moments between darkness and light and that this should become an instrument that not only will nourish my curious mind but also will help to heal my broken soul.

Reciting my mantra: “One step at a time, one page at a time”, I´ll leave you, not to succumb to the arms of Morpheus, but to get pleasantly lost between ink and beautiful words.

Off to read.

azr

I can assure you that I’m alive and let’s say holding on to dear life, to say that I’m fine would be an exaggeration, but as long as you are breathing, it’s better to make the most of it.

I have two mayor things to go over since I have been on an accidental hiatus. Not writing was not on my plans, but I think there’s no time like the present to get right back on the horse.

I first thing is that my fifteen year of reading culminated with my 42nd birthday, and what a year it was. My grand total was 66,185 pages, that’s 1,243 extra pages that what was projected for the year, and 386 pages more than last year’s extraordinary results, making it my best year on record.

Year sixteen projected quota is 64,680 pages, and my reading has been impressively strong. Only 10 days into it, and I already have 4,282 registered pages. If by some miraculous effort, the pace is maintained, or at least kept around 300 daily pages, I’m looking at a 100,000-page year. Being more realistic, my sight is fixed on breaking the 70,000-page mark.

On a bigger scope, there’s only 13,157 pages left in order to reach the first 500,000 pages. Right now, the projections put the date of achieving this gargantuan task on November 9 of this year.

Thus, my focus is dead centered on getting there much sooner, to give purpose, and more importantly, some breathing room to get to the 1,000,000-page mark by my 50th birthday, the task at hand will be to move up that date to around the middle of September, around the 16th or 17th, marking the beginning of the steep and final ascent to my ultimate goal.

Off to read.

azr.

It’s been a while since my last post, and of course, this situation must and will be corrected.

Including today, there’s only 3 days left in the fifteen year of reading. Fortunately, there’s only 314 pages left to reach this year’s goal of 64,942, but more importantly, there’s an opportunity to surpass the amazing results that year fourteen presented.

You might ask what should I do to make this happen, well, only read a total of 1,172 pages in the next 3 days, and I’ll be celebrating not only my 42th birthday but also the second year on a row to register more than 65,000 pages.

Those results keep well on the road to reach the coveted 1,000,000-page mark by my 50th birthday. Right now, my projections put me 7 years, 9 months, and 27 days behind schedule, but this number is rapidly decreasing. For example, on March 13 of this year, I was 8 years, 10 months, and 17 days behind schedule. In only 3 months of reading, I knocked down more than a year of lost ground.

It’s safe to say that this gives me great hope for what’s to come.

Off to read.

azr