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> Or I'm just looking with middle aged eyes and it was always a rare thing for a kid to be really passionate about something. I'd say that most of the time pas
by gwervc 3y ago
> Or I'm just looking with middle aged eyes and it was always a rare thing for a kid to be really passionate about something.
I'd say that most of the time passion is killed in the egg by parents without them noticing by the lack of support (buying a book, materials), interest or attention ("I don't have time to look at what you made") or just plain shunning. Outside big cities, pre-internet time, lack of available knowledge or place to get it can also be a big problem.
School also play a role, even if just by robbing kids of most of their free time. The corporate-like schedule which is incompatible with reading a book from cover to cover in one go is why I didn't read much fiction at the time.
- bluefirebrand 3y ago> The corporate-like schedule which is incompatible with reading a book from cover to cover in one go is why I didn't read much fiction at the time I read books like crazy when I was younger, I loved to read School did everything it possibly could to make sure I stopped enjoying it though, and sure enough by the time my Grade 12 literature class was done with me it had finally bludgeoned out the last enjoyment of reading I had It took me a long time to realize that a lot of book studies, film studies, really any media studies, is just snobbery and not worth a damn. It's better to just enjoy what you enjoy