Post 2:What is a Book?

Books are not "mass-produced items," but rather mass-produced stories that dream to be read by the hundreds. Books are living, breathing objects whom want nothing more than to be loved and to show others how to love. Someone had spent a large portion of their time teaching the book how to show its stories and lessons the right way. And those books who have learned the most and go out into the world and share their stories the best, are rewarded with prizes. Most of all these books are rewarded with love and acceptance every time a new person opens them up and listens to what the book has to offer.
A Book is not simply a message. A book has more to offer the world than one simple message. A book sets off its journey with many implied meanings and applications, not just a message.

A book is so many things. 

A book can be a pair of glasses.This is how a book shows you how to empathize. It will show you things you thought impossible. It can open your eyes to a whole new world and new people you used to judge. 

A book will place you in the other kids shoes and show you why he is anti social and depressed. A book will show you why that little girl you used to make fun of is the way she is. 

A book can be a message carrier. A book opens your eyes and speaks with wise words into the deepest portions of your heart where it seeps through your veins and travels to your brain. This is where it plants it's seeds of understanding and empathy. Later it will blossom into a true sense of compassion for those around us who have experienced world though their own glasses. We, simply by reading books get to borrow their glasses and see their world.

Unimaginable pain, love and laughter is what we get to see with books. A whole different world is portrayed. 

Wether this world be one similar to ours or something different altogether, a book still is an open window into someone else's reality. 

A book can be a gift of love. Sharing one story to another, passing experiences and fondness as it switches hands of multiple people. Hidden in its stories are lessons of how to love and when it's time to stop. 

A book is so many things. A book is an edgless world. A book is ready to drop us off and pick us back up whenever it sees fit. It's ready to help us see or take away our vision all together. 

So what is a book? 

Rather what does it represent?

Endlessness.

Why do I read?

Escaping reality of the every day mindless tasks is impossible. 

Meeting people from different worlds where super powers exist and men travel into the depths of space is impossible. 

Jumping into someone's life and experiencing it with them first hand is impossible.

To relive your childhood in someone else's shoes is impossible. 

Diving into the thoughts of animals and living life as a dog or a cat is impossible. 

But with books, all of this is possible. 

I can escape the everyday. I can meet people from other worlds and dimensions where magic, superpowers, mystic beings and scary monsters exist.

I can jump into someone's life, mid-action and experience it as if it were my own.

I can relive my childhood as another person and gain an understanding of what it would be like to be that person from the bottom up.

I can even live my life as a dog and view the world through their eyes. 

All of these things are made possible by books. 

Without reading, the states are no longer United. The ones who have never experience loss are left blind to the pain of those who have. Those who haven't experienced tragedy are blind to the deep scars of those who have. Those who have not experienced love are unmoved by those who have loved and don't feel empathy towards those who have failed trying. 

The world nothing without books. This is why I read.