Recently I have been doing a lot of self-reflection and trying to understand myself better. It has come to my knowledge that I have been living life in a somewhat unhealthy way, and it has been this way for a very long time. Even though I am realizing that there are things that are going to have to change in the way that I deal with some things that come up in life I know that this is also going to take me some time to learn new ways of dealing with everything and a lot more learning.

When I was growing up I was always reading books, and while I am an avid reader I am coming to understand that this was a way to escape some things in life. I know there are a lot of people who get drawn into the book they are reading and I do the same thing, but I am realizing that I also used the books as a way to hide from some of the things that I was dealing with.

While this is something I felt I needed to do in order to get through life, I have been doing it so long that I do not know how to change it. I am trying to learn new ways of dealing with hardships in life and how to be a different person.