What's your bad habit? Maybe you're thinking biting your nails or watching too much tv or something like that. Well I would say one of my bad habits would be reading endings of books before it's time. When a book gets boring or is at a slow point, I have a tendency to flip to the back and look for any words that jump out; it's usually something with romance or action or something along those lines. I almost always finish the book anyway. I suppose I'm just looking for motivation to keep reading so I can get the full view of how it really ends.
One thing that I often think about is how amazing it would be to have a book on my life. Now I don't mean that I want to have a biography about myself or write an autobiography. No, I want to have my whole life (past, present, and especially future) written out with a copy of it in my hand. I want to flip to the end and find out where I end up in life. Am I married? What's my job? Do I have kids? When will I die? I basically want to find out all of the spoilers in my life.
I brought up this idea to my mom. I told her how I wished that there was such a book. Then she brought up what if the book was super short and I won't have a long life? That stumped me a little. I wouldn't want to be handed my book and it be ten pages long. Or what if it was on a shelf with books the size of dictionaries and mine sat between them barely visible? I would hate to find out that I was going to have a shorter life than what practically every person believes they are entitled to.
All of this brings to light the phrase "live like it's your last day." Recently, I have found great meaning in that. We live in such an uncertain world (as many people say). If my book is only going to be ten pages, then I want them to be the most meaningful ten pages. I don't want someone to pick up my book and realize that it's a waste and finding that even the end isn't worth forcing them to keep reading in order to get the full point of view. If my book will be ten, fifty, hundreds, or maybe thousands of pages long, I want it to be something that's worth while. I want my book to affect so many people, just like how many books have affected my life.
So I would like to challenge anyone reading this. Make your book worth it. Don't let it be some book that has no better purpose than to be thrown out. It's your story, and it may not be too late to make it something amazing and purposeful.
