Solitude

Getting Lost In A Book

Getting lost is one of my favourite things. Not knowing where I am and nobody knowing who I am. But getting lost in a book is an even better experience.

Ever since I was a young age I've always been reading. While other kids were drawing during their free time or go on their cell phones, my nose was usually stuck in a book. It didn't matter how loud it was in class at times, when I was reading it was only me and the words on the page.

I could read for hours at a time, curled up into a ball with a blanket, a mug of tea on a cold day. I wouldn't notice the time slipping by or the sun lowering in the sky, becoming dimmer and dimmer until I couldn't see the words anymore. It wasn't until then would I notice that it was dark out and that my legs were stiff because I hadn't moved in hours or that I was starving because I hadn't eaten since lunch.

Its an escape from reality. You don't think about what's going on in your life, the bad, the good, the in between. It's just you and the characters who make you feel a certain way, whether getting your heart pumping in excitement or makes you want to grab a box of tissues because you can relate to what's happening.

I'm addicted to that feeling because sometimes I'd rather be in the novel than out here in the real world. I'm addicted to those types of books that are hard to put down and when you finish it, you sit there and think about what you read because it was just that good. Im addicted to those types of books that make you feel, whether it's sad or mad.

Some of the those types of books make me feel that life is a lot bigger than we think it is.

But then again maybe it's just a book.