One can only hope.

For perspective, I consider myself a novelist, and would pursue that further.  I have one novel self-published and on the market, another drafted, and dozens more percolating in my head.

I work in a supermarket during the day, and have been there for nearly 6 years.  Doing such has granted me the unwelcome realization that people either refuse to or even can’t read any more, at least casually.  I cannot tell you how many times I have had to explain to a customer that they were wrong because they looked only at the bright colors and big numbers, and paid no attention to the clearly written product a price is referring to.

My dominion within the store is the dairy department, and within the cooler where customers aren’t meant to enter we have had a cardboard sign with ‘WINNING’ written on it against the back wall.  Today, a regional manager came in for a walk-through and demanded that the sign be taken down because he thought it said 'Whining’.

This is a fairly minor thing, but for a person who’s job it is to represent a company to be incapable of reading a sign that had been up for years (this wasn’t just a quick glance, it was explained to him) disheartens me.

I still love writing, when I have the passion to work on it, and I have no intention on stopping because people don’t read, but it’s just sad to see that people don’t anyway.