What I Love Most About Reading
Did you ever really sit and think about what you get out of
reading? I mean really think about what reading gives you? Think about what is
your most favoritest part of what an author writes. We all sit and consume
books like some people buy shoes or coffee (some
of you are true addicts and cover all of those LOL). Well for me it isn't
just about the escape of real life or even the characters journey that is so
different from my own, at least it’s not that alone. When I think about what I
love most or get most out of reading I think about what is it that authors are
great at doing? Authors are great at one thing...bringing out emotions in us
just by the words they write. Just by the people they create.
SO what is my favorite thing about reading? My favorite
thing about stories is that sweet anticipation of what is coming next. That
feeling of just sitting on the edge of your seat because you can see that one
moment coming. That moment that is going to fill your heart with so much happy
that you clap and SQUEEEEE so loud you cover your mouth even when you know you
are alone. That moment that fills your heart with so much joy and love that you
can’t help smiling so big your cheeks hurt. That one moment when you are so
happy that you immediately go back to read that part again and then pause to
take it in. When you visualize the scene, watching their faces in your head,
feeling the emotions they must be feeling at that time. Just soaking it in.
That is my most favorite thing about reading.
Now don’t get me wrong I love a good heart breaking story -
Yes I‘m one those people - the kind that you know you are going to tear up,
cry, or do the wookie cry face so bad people are wondering if you are having a
mental breakdown because your heart just broke into a million tiny pieces. I
love these. I really do.
Side note: Just so you
know authors are big meany pants that revel and cackle with joy in the idea of
our red puffy eyes from crying and lack of sleep because of course we had to
stay up all night to get the happy parts...I have been told this is a trade
secret by some authors...shhhhh don’t tell anyone I told you
But what makes those heartbreaking stories the best stories
are the moments when you get to sigh and clap and cheer out loud because your
heart is so full it might explode from all the happy that just happened. Where
you sit in awe of how they did that. How they brought you from down from the
brink of utter devastation to such joy and love.
Those are my favorite things about reading. The love and joy
and happy and the sighs that makes you slow down to enjoy that feeling. To stop and
just feel that happy. Because when do we usually get to do that in our everyday
lives? There's no pause button on the happy moments in life and sometimes it
feels like the angry, sad, I just want to cocoon myself in bed feelings stick
out more in real life than the happy ones. So I am a proud addict of reading
because it allows me that one small moment or ten of happy that I can just
pause and rewind over and over again.
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