Books can make a profound difference in a person's life. They can shape our core values and affect our decisions. They can influence our dreams, and they can mold our personalities.
As a book-lover myself, I know without a doubt that reading has had an unprecedented impact on my life going so far as to influence every facet of it, and if you are in the same boat as me, then the same has most-likely happened to you, too.
So, for us book-lovers out in the world, I've created this list of ten things that every person who loves reading will know to be true because without a doubt, these ten have been very much incorporated into our lives.
1. Characters in a book can be as real to us as the people we talk to everyday. They exist because they made a lasting imprint on our souls. They made us feel, made us laugh. They changed the way we looked upon life, and so they are just as real to us as anyone else we've met in this life.
2. Reading does not make us antisocial. Some nights we would rather curl up with a warm blanket, a steaming cup of tea, and a great book, but that does not take away from the other times when would like to go out and be with friends.
3. We are smarter than the norm. We can't read this much without expanding our knowledge. Our brains absorb the syntax, the grammar, and the new words like a sponge each time we read a new passage, and we can't help but be more intelligent because of this past time.
4. We get emotional while reading. We can cry while reading. We can get angry while reading. We can read a sentence so funny that we burst out laughing – much to our embarrassment if we are in public. We can smile while reading that can persist throughout the rest of our day. Reading can fill us with as many emotions just as if an actual event had transpired to cause those emotions.
5. There are books we will never tire of. We love them so completely that we could read them over and over. Besides, our perspectives are always changing, so we can find something different to understand and love in each new reading.
6. Given the chance, there is one book that we would crawl into and live out the rest of our lives. This book is so fantastic, the plot line so enticing, and the characters so envious that we would trade our life for theirs in an instant.
7. We have a colorful mind. Our thoughts are actually in color, and they are so vivid that sometimes our imaginings blend too closely with our genuine memories.
8. The film adaptations are never better than the books. Our mind carried us much further and to much more profound places than the visual cuts the director made for us. Besides, those clips were of someone else’s imaginings and not even remotely like ours were.
9. We can escape everyday dramas through a book. If we are faced with a nuance in our life, we can completely forget about it while reading. It’s like the world we live in drops away, and there is only the dealings occurring in the book.
10. Finishing a good book is comparable to closing a door in our life. It feels as if a chapter of our life has ended. The finality of finishing a book can be so painful and so sudden that it feels as if a door has closed within ourselves. There is no cure for this ache, either. Another book can salve the pain, but it will never add nor take away the feelings we had from that other book that had we finished.
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