Traveling

People ask me if I travel. I say yes.

They inquire about the number of states I have been to. I say 0. This seems to baffle them.

I have traveled to so many different places while enclosed in the confines of my room. Been to different decades and met different people. Every book I read takes me on a new journey. I step into a different place entirely. This might sound corny to you and you might raise a brow skeptically but that is probably because you have not experienced what I have experienced.

For me reading is an escape from reality and the monotony of everyday life. There is a certain charm in being able to forget the world and in staying up late clutching a book. I am not embarrassed to accept that I have bawled my eyes out and howled with laughter while reading. Sometimes simultaneously. Different books remind me of different periods of my life and fill me with nostalgia. I love characters from my favorite books like I might love a family member which to some people is insane.

Sometimes I wish I can give people the kind of joy that my favorite authors have given me. That is something I hope to achieve in the future.

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.” Stephen King

"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.”  George R.R Martin

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