You know that moment when you see an awesome movie or finish reading an amazing book and you just don't know what to do with your life anymore. It's like you were so engrossed in something, maybe a tv show, and suddenly it's over and there's just a void in your life that you don't know how to fill. It genuinely hurts. Like you just broke up or something. Sort of like a wake up call, knock on the head, get back in the real world, movie's over.
It is like you wake up and don't know what century you're in. That's how much you got sucked into the fictional world. And people like me? I will gladly be stuck in the fictional world forever. Very obviously, I am a dreamer. And fiction is my sanctuary. It's better than the real world any day. Most of the time you can figure out what is gonna happen and when you can't, you have faith that it is going to be alright. All's well that ends well. That's all you need to know. Real life, not so happening you see. In fiction you can be anything - a pilot, a doctor, superman, Princess, witch, vampire, just anything. One thing today and another tomorrow. You can be fearless, powerful, brave, smart, beautiful, handsome, whatever whoever you want to be. That is the beauty of fiction. It gives you life.
People ask me why I read so much and they don't get it when I say its my life.
Books are my life.
I would cease to exist without my life.
They make me dream, they make me believe in what could never be, they make me feel more than feelings themselves. I feel their pain, I mourn their deaths, I live their lives. They seem more real than life itself. But this isn't just for the readers, it is for everyone who seeks escape whether in movies, tv shows, books, games, art, anything that makes you forget where you are and takes you off to a far far place, one where you never want to return from. Such is the beauty of fiction and such is the intelligence of its creators. Their finesse, their thoughts, they are incredible. They have the power to make others dream their dreams. They give us lives outside our own and for this I am eternally grateful.
Ps. I just finished seeing 'Divergent' the movie and I loved it. Very few times you get to see a movie do justice to the book. When I read the book, I finished all three in two days. Couldn't stop myself. That's how much the books affected me.
Pps. I can't wait for 'Insurgent' to release.
And today Amazon delivered me my favourite author - Jeffrey Archer's new installment in the Harry Clifton series 'Mightier than the Sword'. Gonna start reading it now.
Super excited.
Xoxo
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