Roses are red
Violets are blue
I'm addicted
What about you?
...So, what's your addiction?
When I found myself confronted with this question in English class, I faltered...
Not because I don't know what I'm addicted to, or because I have no addictions, but because I'm overly dependent on too many things and since I've too many addictions, I've managed to reduced them all to this quote:
I'm addicted to books.
I love everything about books.
Big and small books!Old books, new books! dictionaries and encyclopedias!
Love the stories, the humour, the suspense, the adventure, the romance (the dashing knight always saving his damsel in distress in some new, equally fascinating way) the magic, the fun, the entertainment pocket-size! you can playback anytime, you can do-overs and stop at anytime you're bored or just don't feel like reading anymore... and it counts as studying!
I adore not just the stories, but also the printing of the letters on the paper pages, the feeling of the pages as they slip by my fingers and the whooshing sound they make as they pass by.
The black and white images adorning the first letter on the beginning of each chapter, the colours and images on the covers (I especially like hardcover books, and buy them whenever I can get them) damn! I even like the way books smell! old and new, and like paper and ink.
I love the act of buying books.
I like to always be informed on what books are out or to come out, and I stop by the book store near my house, at least once every two days. Every time I see a new book store I always enter and check the shelves, for both familiar and unfamiliar titles. The lady in the book store near my house even knows my name, and what kind of books I like to buy. She always greets me by my name and says, if there is anything new that, she thinks I might like to read.
But I'm learning not to buy any book I want, just because I want it.
I must learn to do this fast, because I'm running out of bookshelf space very quickly, and I've began to pile my books in towers and castles on the floor...
Right now I'm building a bridge with my Terry Pratchett's collection.
My Harry Potters' are on the base of my central tower and my Anne Rice and Sherrilyn Kenyons' are fighting for a spot in the front wall. What can I do, if I look at the shelves and the books just stare at me?
So yummy and shinny and all lined up...
I love book stores!
Not so found of libraries though, the book are all looked away under key and look, (and in my library, even chains) it looks like they are on prison and it upsets me. It just seems kind of cruel...
Anyway, the books are always there... just for you.
They are never bored of you, never tired from playing, never occupied with something else.
They always have time for you... they always listen and they never complain.
They never judge. They always care.
You can call them at any time, all the time or don't call on them, at all...
They don't get upset, because you don't spend enough time with them or because you trade them for some other book.
Books are the best of friends and the wisest of teachers.
Because they teach you the greatest of life's lessons... they teach you to be yourself.
Let me explain...
A lot of people these days don't like to read, I know.
They think that they can learn everything from the TV but they are wrong.
Do the TV explain and describe all the emotions, that you can feel when you read?
No,it's just exposing them.
Does the TV give you the freedom of imagination?
No,they make you fit into their imagination.
Yes, it's easier to just turn the TV on with the click of one button, but reading...it's much more beautiful...
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