2025... Please, Stop.

Happy Friday! I hope all you lovelies out there are looking forward to the weekend. Whether you have plans to relax with a good book or have exciting things happening, I sincerely wish you a great and fulfilling weekend!

Now to get down to the meat and potatoes of today's post. I sometimes wish I could go back and better break down what I had read each month of 2024. I finished off the year with 75 books read. Which is a HUGE milestone for me! Currently, I am sitting with a whopping 10 books read... We are 4 months into the year, and I had jumped into 2025 with the hopes that I would fly past last years goal.

There is a little voice in my head telling me that I'm not good enough. It's saying things about how I should be reading more, or that I should be doing a better job with finishing the books I'm reading, and that I'm behind on ARCs. All these thoughts are whispering in the back of an already very chaotic brain. The little demon on my shoulder is being petty and bitter to those that are crushing their reading goals, while doing life and making amazing content. I'm having flares of envy wishing I could accomplish what others in the book community are doing.

Thankfully I know enough about validating my feelings while also reminding myself I'm an entirely different and unique human to those I follow. This whole experience is giving me a massive opportunity to focus on what it means to give myself grace. I am learning and understanding that I am doing the best that I can with the ability I currently have. I'm also reminding myself constantly that every person is different, I am not supposed to be a carbon copy of those I surround myself with. I am meant to be my own person on my own reading journey with my own habits, weaknesses and strengths.

In a few months time, I might be blowing my reading goal out of the water because I allowed myself the time to regroup and do what I can when I could. My love for reading shouldn't be and will not be equal to a reading goal or the pressure that I put on myself. I don't want to be in the position I have been in, comparing my reading quantity to other amazing readers within the community. I don't want to compete. I want to enjoy the process. I want to support others while following what makes sense for me.

I know a lot of this is centred more around books, but lessons like this can bleed over into all aspects of your life! This coming weekend just remember to give yourself grace and that you are on your own journey, at your own timing.

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