On reading and writing

I admit, nowadays reading a book has becoming a struggle to me perhaps I was so preoccupied with other stuff that I can not manage to squeeze in some allotted time with my other love which is reading. When I don't read I noticed that my mind is becoming stale I grope for words every time I try to write then suddenly my mind goes on blank for several minutes and that is so frustrating! sigh. One thing why I'd like to immerse myself on reading is because from it I know i will discover tantamount of words I needed to be able to express myself freely. One particular writer whom I forgot the name wrote something like this: Fall in love with words and words will fall in love with you. So Im doing my best to get to know them words so that it's easier to me to fall in love with them. Sometimes I feel I'm not good enough with whatever I do and writing is part of them too! I grew up in a home where reading and writing is not a norm. My mama, tito and tita were not a reader nor a writer so growing up I was not introduced to the wonderful world of reading. I only got to reading when I was in third year high school when my Grandfather was hospitalized, back then the only material available was The Holy Bible. I started reading Proverbs and moved on to Psalms then a high school seat mate lend me Bob Ong's bakit baligtad magbasa ang mga pilipino and soon after I got hooked! But writing did not come easy as to read a book. Up to these days I still struggle to write with great conviction and clarity... To be continued.