I really love Reading!

When I open a novel I feel my mind is soaring off of the surface of the Earth and into a land far, far away where ideas, thoughts, and actions are boundless. The only way to enter into this far away place is simply by letting your imagination bring you through the twists and turns of the novel. Reading a novel is analogous to eating an ice cream on a waffle cone. When you eat an ice cream on a waffle cone you have to have patience to savor the moment. In reading it takes time to be impressed in the experience the author writes about. The verbs, and adjectives in a novel is like the sprinkles and chocolate swirls to an ice cream. All of these add an oomph and zest to what it is you are enjoying. You can't be racing to go through an ice cream cone in one shot or speeding through a novel in an hour. If you do that it makes these activities seem like a chore, but actually these simple moments will be cherished deep into your heart.

Letting your imagination flow with ideas, images, and actions, which only you can uniquely imagine, allows you to go back into the past, present, or even future. Why not fly a kite with Benjamin Franklin and witness his groundbreaking discovery of electricity? Go further back in time and think of what it must have been like to be a dinosaur running recklessly throughout the world and clawing each others brains out to survive and be the alpha male. If you enjoy sports revert back to when Babe Ruth was slamming home runs or even back to when Lou Gehrig created his famous "Today I am luckiest man in the world" speech, which echoed throughout all of Yankee Stadium.

This is just the history portion of books! There are fantasy, fiction, classical, even science fiction sections. Basically anything you can think of a book is out there ready to be opened and enjoyed.

You catch my drift that reading is one of my favorite hobbies. Our society can be so provincial and uniform, but reading doesn't follow any standards or give into such trivialities like our culture and society. Everytime I open a book I encounter a place where only I can go and endeavor in a long memorable journey. If you don't read you are missing out in a whole new dimension!