Virial Theorem

Yahoo News >> Study: Flowers Losing Smell: Spring’s bloom may not smell so sweet anymore, as pollutants from power plants and automobiles destroy flowers’ aromas, a new study suggests.

This is really sad. It seems that the more we embrace and delve into technology, the more we lose nature.

Recently, I’ve realized that I have almost completely eliminated reading for pleasure from my life. In fact aside from Cujo by Stephen King, the last book I read completely was in March of 2007. That’s slightly more than a year of very little reading. That is a really scary thought.

I recently attempted to re-spark my apparently lost love of reading but it ended in total failure. I attempted all sorts of books; fiction, non-fiction, biographies and historical fiction and yet none of these books stuck. It wasn’t that I didn’t enjoy them (because I did); it’s just that I was unable to read them all the way through. If I had the time, I could probably read a book all the way through. But once I put a book down, I have trouble picking it up again no matter how much I want to.

I used to be an avid reader of all kinds of books. In grade 6 and 7 I was part of my school’s book club and in grade 7 I won an award. I remember in grade 8 somebody in my class commented that if I was seen without a book, something was wrong. And that wasn’t an exaggeration. I used to read in class, while walking down the hallway, in the washrooms, and during car rides. Sometimes I would give up sleeping in favour of reading. Now I’m here, three years later, rarely picking up a novel.