Food For Thought...Another Sticky Note
My book club just finished reading The Happiness Project (I totally recommend getting this book from the library btw. Not everyone in my book club enjoyed it but I think everyone can get something from this novel) and we've been sharing ideas about what makes us happy.Or rules that we personally live by. Anyhow, one girl's particularly struck me: Don't be over loyal.
Don't Be Over Loyal.
She meant it as a all encompassing term. If you don't enjoy a book -don't finish it. If a friendship that you have worked on no longer benefits you -rethink it. If something you previously enjoyed doing something that no longer brings you joy -don't do it.
It's an interesting idea because I think people have always been taught that being loyal is a good thing. I feel like I am loyal to a lot of things: people, books, tv shows, fandoms to an extent, Lego. I want to still like everything that brought me joy a few years ago. I want to be loyal to the idea of being loyal.
Do you know how hard it is for me to not-finish a book that I have started but am not particularly enjoying? I think there are only three books total that I have never finished...and I fully plan on finishing The Two Towers someday....just not anytime soon.
Don't Be Over Loyal.
~Nox