Well, well, you caught me by surprise. I was expecting a post by some typical young person who has no time for reading, and found myself caught in an analysis that extols reading.

I am a person who spends 80% of my time either reading or writing...and yet, your post was so well written that you made me think and see even more beauty in the gift of reading.

An important part of reading for me, which you did not mention, but I feel was implied, is that every time I pick up a new well-written book, I travel to a new world where I become someone else, meet and love or hate but get to know other ways of thinking and so, for that time, I am living another life. I have probably read over 10,000 books over my 76 years which means I have lived/shared thousands of lives, loves, and ideas by the tens of thousands.

I would not get anywhere close to that from watching movies (though I enjoy them too).

Thank you for brightening the start of my day

:)