When someone asks me why I read books or what is the use of book reading, my answer to them is: whenever you feel miserable, sad or depress and think that you are a complete loser because you didn’t achieve something, when you sit all day crying in a locked room with the flashbacks of the past you do not want to remember, it comes back to you, bring with it the surge of emotions such as fear, anger and pain, you need to read a book.

This is when one needs to find true comfort and if you don’t find it around you, you are sure to find it in books. Yes friends, there is a whole world inside books. There you find emotions and that you are not alone, there are people around the world who are in far worse situations. You find out that there is courage inside you to be what you want to be if only search deep enough.

Remember every story has a moral, you just need to be able to see it. Everything happens for a reason and one day you will understand it; and maybe the bad experiences were to make you stronger and give a message. Make sure you see yourself as a courageous person and not as a fearful one, scared of everything because without a few stories, a few fantasies, how are you going to face reality? Think!

So this is my answer of why I read books — because in books you learn that loyalty, friendship, love and family are above everything. Even if you have to sacrifice everything to save them, you should not hesitate.

Hope you will also discover the world inside books and never stop reading!

Published in Dawn, Young World July 8th, 2017