Add up the dental care, awareness ritual, ab worship, anti-oxidizing crusades, watering the earthquake kit, and: we’re switching means for ends as if it were sensual, all together now!
Books are one thing, the books we are meant to read. And I learnt this today. The next time someone asks you if you’ve invested life in a book you haven’t. Act overjoyed: you aren’t shameful, you’re throwing yourself on their I Read This Shit temple.
Give them a pen and paper. ‘Can you write down what you just told me?’
Congratulations, they are now under your employ. Make a file for your new annotated library; see who wearies first (they will).