Reading, Writing and the Opposite

Every time I go long periods without reading my writing suffers. It suffers because of the lack of ideas I expose myself to. It suffers because of the lack of thinking that I go through.

Reading is an intimate process. It’s a time where you expose yourself to experiences that you’ve never been exposed to before and it gives you a chance to catch yourself when your mind drifts away when reading the last page all to recognize your mind didn’t process a single word. It forces you to think about this world in a different way than you’ve ever have before.

Anytime I stop reading it’s harder for me to write. Writing and reading seem like they’re opposite but opposites reveal each other and I wonder how many things in life would be enhanced by doing something that seemed to be doing the opposite?