Future Literate Me

  It's hard to know what the future holds, especially while in a state as impermanent as high school, but it is hard to imagine a reality where I ever stop reading. While describing future literary me, it is difficult to get into specifics because at this point I truly have no clue (definitely less of a clue than I should) what the next stage in my life will be, though hopefully I will have more facial hair and be around ten to fifteen pounds heavier. I suspect to continue building relationships, facing problems, and experiencing moments of indescribable joy, and I know that through all of this I will have books as a guide, as something to relate to, something to talk about, and something to pass the time. Literature has always served all of these purposes for me to the point where I can now easily trace back specific times in my life through the books I was reading at the time, because the things experienced in the books become moments in my life as I live them vicariously through the characters, becoming something that may as well have actually happened to me. I am excited to experience the rest of my life and I am excited to see what new books become important to me. Books have always been a very large part of my life and I suspect that they always will be.