As I mentioned before, last fall I picked up a good habit — ...

As I mentioned before, last fall I picked up a good habit — reading 📚. Later, I added studying English 🇬🇧. But in February, when I got sick 🤒, English fell out of my routine, while reading somehow held on — even if with some gaps.
Since May 10, I’ve been fever-free 🌡, but I’m still trying to get back into a steady reading rhythm. Over the past six months, I’ve read 21 books — not for the number itself, but because I genuinely love learning new things and expanding my understanding of the world.
Right now I’m reading a book about urban legends in the early Soviet Union — how and why they emerged. It’s absolutely fascinating! As they say, everything new is just well-forgotten old 🔁. A few years ago, for example, the media was buzzing about “Israeli paracetamol with wire” 🧪. But back in 1953, several cities in the Ukrainian SSR saw people literally storming hospitals due to rumors: pills with wire, viruses in vaccines, typhoid-infused cotton… 🧻🦠 Of course, none of it was true — not back then, not now.
I wish my reading habit were as strong as some people’s urge to smoke 🚬. I don’t smoke, by the way — never even tried 🙅♀️. And sometimes I catch myself thinking: some people have read as many books in their lifetime as I’ve smoked cigarettes. When I meet someone like that, all I can say is:
“I bid you good day,” and quietly take my leave 🎩.
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