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

The end is nigh

Not in an apocalyptic way, but at least for my fifteen year of reading, the clock is ticking away, and let me tell you, I’m not even close to where my total should be. Of course, this gives me purpose.

The pressing number for the last 26 days of my reading year is 9,125 pages. This magical number comes from one of my many projections. With that gargantuan number, I’ll balance out this year’s reading, offsetting the enormous amount of surplus pages that have stacked up over the years, more than 200,000 pages in all.

With a little over 8 years to get to the coveted 1,000,000-page mark, I’m looking for at least 65,000 pages for each of the remaining years. This makes any extra pages a necessity to come out victorious and finish the last sentence of the last book, sitting in a beautiful space surrounded by books, with a light drizzle making beautiful and calming music.

But as always, there’s an immediate task to tackle in order to savor the final result right now it’s to read around 350 daily pages from today until my 42th birthday.

Off to read.

azr

P.S.

I’ll keep you posted with the return of my Daily Journal entries.

I’m exactly one month from wrapping up year number fifteen of my quest to read 1,000,000 pages, and there’s still a whole lot of reading left to do.

In case you’re wondering, my total so far is 53,965, which puts me about 29 days behind schedule. In previous posts, I was toying with the idea of putting in place a rigorous reading schedule to achieve at least a total that would balance out the enormous surplus of pages from past years. I have done so, with really satisfactory results.

Right now, there are two numbers that have become the main focus of my final ride of the year. The first is 10,882 pages. This particular number is to contribute with some extra pages to counteract my weaker years. With the time left, I will have to read an average of 360 pages to do so, not a walk in the park but also not so farfetched as to not deem it feasible.

The second number is 11,835 pages, being the exact number to surpass by 1 page, my best year. Although year number fifteen has become my second best year, I’ll always strive to make each year my best, if only by 1 page. In order to achieve such an enormous task, I would have to read an average of 395, not as far removed as the number to balance out the year, so of course, this is the real focal point of the remaining month.

The thing that keeps me going forward is that the first half of my project is well within reach, which means that I’m only 29,659 pages away from the 500,000-page mark, putting the projected date on April 4, 2024.

I’ll keep an eye on the prize and work on hitting my marks for the current year.

Off to read.

azr