We all want to be loved each one of us . We feel vulnerable and only want to be loved and accepted by others. Some go from relationship to relationship. Other marriages after marriages looking for wanting love their way. Always looking for love and acceptances, only to feel more unloved after the honeymoon is over. The honeymoon is the first time you learn all about someone and the excitement, the feeling and emotion bubbles to the surface.  Excitement that someone really paying attention to them. Gives them hunger for the honeymoon to never stop.  After they get use to each other though...suddenly the honeymoon is over, and they are looking for that instant high of being loved again in a new partner. Repeated again and again.  It's not until they stop the merry go round and ask what do they really want in a relationship? Many would say they want unconditional love. Someone to love them 24/7. Sweetheart, the only one who can give you that love, is through God only. He loves you with unbreakable love.  While a human heart is so fragile, it can break instantly from one word or action.  Instead of rushing into another relationship. STOP! Look at that person you are presently with. Look at their heart.  Focus away from yourself and your wants to that person you are presently with. Don't judge, but instead show compassion and love to that person. Knowing we all want love and acceptance. Take time to really see their beauty inside and out. Except each other faults.  Ask God to help you see this person to see their strength, failures and courage. What have your observe? They are looking for the same things as you are they not? Knowing this, it would make you want to stick it out and just enjoy each other companionship. Finding a friend and a lover in one without having to get back on the ride of ups and down emotions. Just maybe the peace you are looking for is in that one person.  It just takes time to see that person for who they really are.  Just maybe they  are your true soul mate looking right back at you. Look past the appearances and look at their heart instead.

I and many others like me are the paper on which the story and pictures appear. There can be hundreds and hundreds of us or just a few to one of us. We are the ________of the book.

If You Had a Choice What Country Would You Love to Live In? Why Did you Choose That Country. Explain Why? Write 200 or less words. If you are already a traveler, write about your favorite country or country you still want to visit. To make it more fun find pictures in magazines to add to your journal.  In my journal I wrote about Paris, Italy and Ireland.  You can even study more about that country by doing research and adding to the lesson.

I hold the book together and keep the book from bending or going out of shape. I am also called the backbone of the book. In the library setting a call number is attached on me. I have the title and author’s name printed on me. I am the ________________of the book.

Describe Your Favorite Place You Love to Go?
Tell Why You Love That Place?
Description is Very Important In this Assignment.

Have fun writing this exercise. It's a great way to share with others about your favorite place. When writing try to write all about the detail so to give the readers the feel they are right there experiencing what you are experiencing.  If you need help writing about your favorite place, check out travel brochures or tour guide websites. They will give you examples on ways to write about your favorite place. Please don't copy what they wrote... write it with your own voice. Have fun as you relate your favorite place on paper.

When I worked at chain bookstores in our job description, we needed to read new releases so we could sell books. Their philosophy,” A bookseller who reads lots of books… sells more books.” One of the perks of working at a bookstore we had the chance to take out two new releases a week. By just leaving only the book covers and signing a paper we will return the books undamaged was all that was needed.I got hooked… I was addicted.

Problem for me at the time, I was going to school and trying to balance my books reading for work and schoolwork. I must admit I was struggling to make it work.

When I heard about a speed-reading course at a community college… I signed up. After taking the class, I later learned there was advantages and disadvantages on knowing how to speed read. You are probably thinking it would be a gift to speed read?

To me it is a gift and a curse. To this day, I cannot really enjoy a book as I once had. Sounds silly doesn’t it? I can go through a stack of books in just a short time scanning pages…reading first paragraphs and last paragraphs of each chapter. The first chapter and the last chapter of any book are the meat and potato of a book. They tell what the author is really trying to relate and what the whole book is all about.

The instructor said the middle of each chapter and the middle of the book is only fluff. You need to scan, look for highlighted works and bold statements and quickly find the meaning for each chapter until you get to the end of the book. Yes, you can do this with fiction too. Fiction scanning and looking for key topics and characters and moving quickly through the book.
 
The big exam at the end of the speed-reading class, you needed to go through ten books in one hour and answer the questions about each book. It was reading on steroids…I was daydreaming on how many books I could now read the thousands every year. So many books I now would have the gift to read them all in minutes.
 
Later, I started to regret it. When I pick up a book my speed reading took over. I couldn’t stop myself. I was speed reading through everything. I could not stop myself.In the beginning, it was fun, but it soon drained me. I was losing my love for reading.

It wasn’t until I came across one of my favorite author’s new book. I wanted to read every word. This author had such a poetic way of writing. I wanted to enjoy every morsel of the written word. It was a struggle. I fought with myself by taking off the speed-reading glasses and putting on the slow enjoyable ones instead.

I slowly got back to reading again.…it’s just I now need to stop myself from speed reading and just take the time to really enjoy the one book in front of me…without thinking I have a quota to reach. Quality not quantity. I just need to breathe and enjoy the written word as all authors intended.

If you are thinking about learning to speed read, take my advice and really ask yourself the following questions: what are your intention on learning to speed read? Do you need to read a lot of books in a short time? Would you prefer to just enjoy a book at your own time? Do you want to enjoy each word and description and enjoy what the author is putting across?

I hope this post opens your eyes about speed reading. Until the next post.
 

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