Have you ever experienced the life of a super hero with incredible powers in your hands? Or the thrill of being an excellent detective and solving the most mysterious of cases? Have you ever fought the evil dark forces with the use of your magic wand? Or travelled and seen the world to your heart’s fullest desire? I know these are next to impossible or maybe even completely impossible things and you all obviously haven’t had a chance to do either but you know what? A person who reads has had a chance to do each of them, and lots more, because when you read a book, you don’t just read it, you live it, you imagine yourself as the character of the book, you see yourself dealing with every situation that the character deals with and THAT EXACTLY is the magic of reading.
Kristin Martz once said, “We lose ourselves in books. We find ourselves there too.” Now, the first question that might pop into your head is, “Why should I lose myself in a book when I can easily lose myself in my phone or computer?” The answer is that you might be able to lose yourself in your gadget but you won’t find yourself there. Books can make you imagine so much more, they can enhance your vocabulary, develop your personality and most important they can make you gizmos. Books think out of the little box which you are confined to because of your gadgets and will not only help you with your linguistic abilities but also with your communication skills. Conversations will always be interesting if you can talk well and that can only happen if you are well read. Books have a way to speak to you, in ways no one and nothing else can. They are the best remedy to boredom, to escape reality, to live a life which will be way more than interesting than your own. So, today, on the occasion of the world book day, I want to take the opportunity to urge all of you to just simply read. Go grab a book and lose yourself to it and I can vouch for it that exactly where you lost yourself, you shall discover a better version of yourself there too. If the thought of reading still doesn’t sound appealing to you, then think of it as the only way to live a number of lives in a single life. George Martin summed it all up very well, “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. A man who never reads lives only one.”