Why must one read a book?

Everyone tells us about the technicality and facts about reading books. Hear it from a reader, and you’ll see the difference. Books are not only inked pages, which helps you enhance your vocabulary and have a better understanding, but books also make you imagine stories you never knew existed, make you feel emotions you never knew you were capable of feeling. Makes you go into a world you didn’t have a clue could be there. Books are not only paras which tells you factual information, if you look at it deeply with your soft eyes and heart filled with kindness, you’ll see how books treat you better than you might have ever treated yourself. It doesn’t only make you a part of their story, but it’s an adventure on its own. Books not only represent information, it’s much more than that. It’s much more than ‘’ storytelling. 

Books heal you, but they have the capability to break you as well. Books can make you smile like a kid and yet make you learn so much about yourself and life. Try finding it, and you’ll find answers to it all in different books you go through. In different stories, you see yourself finding answers to your questions. Books help you find who you are, what you can be, and what is life. 

It has the capability to make you more curious to learn, to read, to live, to adapt, to understand, and above all, to feel and to grow.  It helps you look at things in a different perspective, it helps you be more patient as you start to go through the journey of reading page by page. They bring you calm while they hold you in their warmth and make you feel safe and at home. 

I started reading when I was 5. I’m 17 today, and I haven’t stopped ever since. Whether it’s the scent of those new school books or novels that I read. They’ve made me someone I didn’t know I could be. They’ve made me learn things I didn’t know ever existed. Made me reach places I thought I never could and made me explore life I thought wasn’t possible for me to.  Some books that helped me with it would be : 

1] The Bhagavad Gita- Krishna Dvaipayana and Veda-Vyasa 

2] The Mountain Is You – Brianna Wiest

3] Atomic Habits – James Clear 

4]Ikigai- Hector Garcia and Francesc Miralles 

5] Life’s amazing secrets- Gaur Gopal Das

6] The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho

And many more, which plays a vital role in who I am today and what I will be in the future . 

I hope that the beauty of books finds you in the safe boat. 

By: Palak Dawar

Apeejay School, Noida