So, many people have stopped reading actual paper books as technology has improved, and they have been calling it a waste of time and they just do not think that reading will be very beneficial to them at all. Well, honestly, I think that you are wrong. Reading has a lot of benefits and personally, I think that it is one of the best things that you can do.
The first thing that makes reading one of the best things that you can do is that reading a book, depending on the type that you read, you are allowed to escape your reality and go to another one. It gives you the opportunity to take all of your life and be able to focus on something else and it can take you away to a place that you could have never known existed or it could just give you another outlet to express yourself. You also have the ability to fall in love with the place and the time and have the book make you feel something other than what you normally feel during your life. Reading has the ability to give you a break from your world without every having to leave it and it also gives you the ability to see the characters yourself and imagine how everything would be.
The second thing would be the way that you can find yourself in some of the characters that you will read about. You may pick up a book and not have any clue that you will find yourself in there. You also have the ability to connect and grow attached to the characters, which lets face it, can be the coolest and most awesome thing that you could do or it could be really bad. I only say bad because that character that you fall in love with could end up being a jerk or there could be something tragic that could happen to them.
The third thing that is awesome about reading books is that it allows you to connect with other people that have read the book and may have the same or some opposing thoughts as you do about it. You might also find that you like to mark up your book and annotate it with all of your thoughts and comments that you have while reading it, that's the best way to get into a book; write doesn't all of your thoughts that you have while reading it.
The next thing that is awesome about reading books is that it gives you the opportunity to write. Yeah reading is also the start to writing. You might read something in the book and it may give you an idea for an article or just a quote that you think would be good to remember. It doesn't matter what book you read, one of them is bound to make you feel something enough to write.
The last and final thing about reading a book, is that it gives you some knowledge on things that you might not already know about or about a situation that you might encounter. It could teach you something as simple as how to appreciate something you didn't know you should or something like a past war or past people.
Honestly, reading is something that is truly magical and something that everyone should appreciate more than they do. There are so many good things that come from reading and everyone should be able to experience those things.
