They say the first step is admitting you have a problem, right? Well what if your problem, isn't completely a problem? Until it causes you to spend way too much money and lose sleep over and get way to attached to fictional characters? Well, I guess this is me admitting I have.. a slight problem.
I am a bookworm. Absolutely, 100% a bookworm. I can't go to Target or Walmart without going and looking at the books, and I have to literally talk myself out of buying one every single time I go in. I know there's others like me out there, and for them, I want to let them know that I completely understand.
1. You buy a book and read it cover to cover, usually in one sitting.
But for some reason it takes you ages to read a book for class? Because that makes sense, right?
2. Not buying a book on runs to Target and Walmart is a major accomplishment.
See above.
3. Your favorite smell is old books.
The sheer sense of peace you get from the pages is magical.
4. Some of your biggest role models are made up.
I'm talking Annabeth Chase, Percy Jackson, Hermionie Granger, Harry Potter, Ron Weasly, Clary, Craig, Alaska Young, and the like. (And if you understood all the references we're now friends, hey buddy!)
5. Your ideal lazy afternoon is curling up in a big blanket with a warm drink and a good book.
It might be new, but chances are, you've read it before, probably multiple times.
6. Seeing people dog-ear pages makes you want to cry.
How could they!?
7. As does cracking the spines.
More like cracking your heart.
8. Bookstores/libraries are heavens on earth.
You can (and probably have) spent hundreds of hours in one or both, pouring over the pages and deciding which to dive into next.
9. You were overly competitive during the public library's summer reading contests.
Those pins were absolutely nothing to joke about.
10. Your books are extensions of yourself.
You care for them like they're your children, and you'd know in an instant if someone replaced your copy, with a different one.
11. Books serve as a comfort or a safe haven.
Stressed? Read. Upset? Read. Angry? Read. Happy? Read. Should be doing other homework? I'll just read one more chapter, then I'll finish it, I promise!
12. You go to thrift stores and garage sales to buy books.
What's better than finding the book you've been wanting, for a quarter?
13. They've been there when people haven't been.
When you've felt so low that you didn't know where to turn, going to your favorite book was like a warm embrace from an old friend.
14. Your shelves are full of them.
You have so many that you have to cycle through them to take them to school with you. (I'm definitely guilty of this one).
15. You're thankful for the millions of words and thousands upon thousands of pages, because they helped make you who you are today.
The lessons you learned about yourself and the world are ones you could never forget or take for granted.
And now that this article is done, I think I'm going to go and curl up with some tea and a good book!
