The human species is a magnificent race, one that has been turning every impossible thing into a possibility. Yet it made something incomparable – it made magic! And like itself, the magic seems ordinary yet when seen with the eye of a reader it turns out to be anything but that. This magic may as well be known as “books”.
“It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.”
― Oscar Wilde
Reading by definition is the complex cognitive process of decoding symbols to derive meaning. It sounds like something so exciting when put that way but people seem to see it as a time consuming unproductive exercise. For some people reading was something done often in their environment so they adapted it as well, for others, it might have only cropped up because they were unimaginably and incredibly bored.
Most people read now to exclude themselves from this world when needed. To any outsider, a reader is seen as a ‘nerd’ and to a fellow reader, he is seen as an explorer, adventurer or perhaps a genius because no reader is ever an ordinary person. This ‘cognitive process’ has changed people in more ways than imagined because when reading you feel things, see places and meet people who you never thought you would and always end up learning something. Books have impacted multiple choices and personalities for the better and given many valuable experiences to a vast amount of people. Some of the world’s most cherished books are written by amazing authors such as Holly Bourne, Jane Austen, Ava Delliara and Stephen King.
This choice of reading will be the best you ever make as books are truly more than ink on a page. To read is an indescribable experience for a reader hidden between those words. My own personal opinion is that a greater power than knowledge will always be understanding and reading makes you empathic, being able to understand and share the feelings of others. Books connect you with their characters and plots. You, yourself become a part of the book and feel what the characters are supposed to feel. This in turn gives you the ability to understand the people around you because though we know what we feel, we are barely ever capable of conveying it. Books and reading give you that power of conveying your thoughts without them losing their validity and essence, and that may be the greatest joy in itself.
“Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.”
– Alberto Manguel
Worth reading, you are a gem my child. Reading books is always a magical world for me too..❣