The joys of reading into another world

For me reading is something which relaxes me in times of stress and gives me the time to forget about reality and look into someones fantasy, a.k.a what the author has decided is the fate of the characters in the book.

I've always loved reading, my parents wanted me to get into it and pushed me into it very young because of how my older siblings seemed to have dismissed the idea of reading. Which sounds very weird to me that people don't like reading because, we all do it on some level every day whether its a text message or instructions on cooking a meal. We all read, so why not like reading something which is meant to be enjoyable?

The kind of books which I've always enjoyed are books which show romance and adventure and how in reality not everything is a fairy tale like we believe when we are children.

Reading to some extent has taught me how to be patient (although I am still a pretty impatient person at times) and not to rush things. Because when I was younger I would always read the last page of the book so that I knew what would happen and a lot of the time, that would ruin the suspense of a chapter which is explained on that last page. Now I know to wait and let the book run its course and that skill I now use in other aspects of my life like in my cooking or studying for exams etc.

Reading is something I cherish and I am so glad that I was born in a society where we are allowed to read, whatever social class, gender or ethnicity I am. I am so glad I can read books whenever I want and express my love for reading with freedom of speech on places like this blog.

I think in some ways reading is becoming less and less popular because many great books are being turned into films, so people would rather use less time and watch the films instead of reading the whole book which is where a lot of the time the true plot to the story lies. My own brother is such a big fan of the Lord of the Rings films and knows the films off by heart yet choose not to read the books because he doesn't like reading, which I personally think is really sad. Reading gives you an insight into someone else's mind who may not even be real but in your imagination is real while you are reading this book.

If there is one thing I've learnt from reading books, its that not everything stays the same once you change the page you're on.