I love to read - although I am addicted I believe it is one of the addictions which is healthier than most as it has nothing to do with any drugs nor with the internet... unless it's on wattpad, but you get where I'm coming from here.

My personal opinion on any story:
Reading is not just about the words on the page, it's about becoming another, about perspective, individuality, experiencing things in the characters lives. Teachers always say it stimulates creativity and imagination.... Wrong. It stimulates your emotions, your perspective on everything can change within 3 pages of a good book. So it doesn't enable for us to imagine it enables us to view, we already had the imagination all  that was missing was a new perspective.