Why I Read

Why I Read...

Why do I read? Thats a question that could be answered in many different ways, with many different answers, even for me. The best answer for me, one that encompasses all the other reasons that I read, is simple. I love to read. I alway have actually, even when I was little.

I don't even remember when I really started to read, I just know that I always have. I've always loved that when I pick up a book and start reading, I can be completely drawn into another person's life. I get to experience other worlds, other countries, different times, different creatures and magic, all by simply sitting down and flipping through page after page. I love being able to escape into books and being distracted from real life, and jump into another person's adventures. It's a type of escape mechanism and stress reliever for me, if things are going wrong in my life, reading about someone else's life, where things are going better for them, or sometimes worse, helps me escape and collect myself before I have to face my own life again.

I also love the educational benefits that I get from reading. Since I read so much, and read such varied literature, I have a great vocabulary, that really helps me in English classes, and when taking the SAT and ACT last year. I also have accumulated a large amount of knowledge from reading, some that is useful in conversations, and some just random facts. There have been a lot of conversations where I say something about a unfamiliar topic, that I'm quite sure how I know it, until I realize that I had read it in some book, and remembered it. The educational benefits however, are not as important to the reasons why I read as the fact that I simply like to read. That is the most important reason about why I read.