Let your mind wander
THE WONDERS OF READING (specifically fiction) Reading. Reading is fun. I like to think of it as a mind vacation. I wonder who started writing stories for people to read. I wonder how someone can create a whole new reality through words. I would like to appreciate all the writers who make a reader’s mind wander. Whenever I read, I get drawn into that specific world for the period of time that I spend reading. The feeling of snapping back into reality is like a big slap across the face. It is worse when I finish a book. It feels like I have no choice but to leave that place I just got comfortable living in. I have to leave behind the people, the places, the sights and sounds; it feels like being forced to leave my very home. For a moment it feels devastating and I am left wondering “what next?” For a moment it feels like my life has finally come to an end, quite a drastic sudden end. It feels like it is over until I pick up another book and I am slowly drawn into that realit...