Ever since I was young, books have always been my constant companions. I was a small and shy child and I was not very good at socialisation. Until this day, I am still the same.
I am not very active either. Hence, when recess time came, I usually went to the library. I was not the type to enjoy running around in the playground or chatting with everyone. Hence, library was my choice. Part of it was because I had nothing better to do since everyone else was out there. It sounds very boring and depressing, doesn’t it? I could be one of those people who waste their entire time doing nothing and regret it later, but I was rescued by reading.
I cannot remember when I start to like or enjoy reading. Although I do vaguely remember I seemed to read a lot of fairy tales books. Whether or not it was because the colourful pictures in the books that catch me interested, it is no longer important. Reading books helped me escape from boredom. It also gave me something to do. This cycle continued until books became an essential part of my life that I can no longer life without.
Whenever I feel tired and down during the day, all of those feeling disappear when my hand flips open the pages and my eyes follow the line of words. I immediately feel better. Books have a lot of meaning to me. There are my comfort, my freedom, my escape. Open a book and the reality fades away. I absorbed into another world, another place. It is incredible how all these typed words on a page can lead us to other lives, other times, other realities.
We can tune out from reality and not notice the time passing as we enter another reality. As I start reading, words and images of the story begin to flow into my mind. The knight fights the dragon, an adventurer goes across the desert, a boy outwits a giant, a girl transforms into a princess. Those scenes are so vivid in my mind that I could not help but want to know more, as I follow the protagonist throughout their journey.
You may let go and become someone else; experience the smells, sounds and sights; feel strong emotions from the characters whom we travel for as long as we read. It makes me feels like I am actually in the story, participates the adventures and experiences it. How amazing is it that we can travel every where without going any where.
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