Reason To Read

          Reading helps the mind and imagination grow and develop until you think it no longer can. It pulls you into a world that may or may not be your own and keeps a tight grasp on you as you turn each ink-filled page. A book is just a book, you may say, but there are many people that find it hard to put a book down for more reasons than one would care to explore.
          Some read for pleasure. They love to read, love the words that are used to describe trivial things like buildings or the weather.  They love the dialogue that builds the plot and feeling of the story. They chose to read because they want to read.
          Some read for educational reasons. They yearn for knowledge, rather than the actual story. They take apart the tale as they read, analyze each and every paragraph, sentence and every word. They learn knew ways of describing tough or simple situations, the learn knew words and their meanings. They chose to read because they want to soak up as much knowledge as they can about the literary world.
          Some read for lack of anything better to do. They may not like to read or may not even like the story, but they will read it anyway, even if it’s just to say that they did. Reading is not at the top of their list of “Fun”, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t somewhere on the list, albeit near the bottom. They read because they can’t think of anything else to do.
           And then, of course, there are some that read as an attempt to run and hide from reality. Truth be told, this seems to be the most common reason for reading. Reading proves as a distraction for them. It creates a world for them and allows them to leave their own world that holds so much grief. The person molds their mind until it fits the very story they are reading, whether they realize it or not. They become the character of the story, or any character in the book world, and set their mind in such a way as to life their real life as the book. It comes to a point where their ‘real’ world and the ‘fantasy’ world are no longer different, but are now the same.

Now I ask you, what’s your reason to read?

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