Why reading is a great hobby to have?

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I think I have shared this before in one of my earlier posts, I started reading when I was quite young and I am happy that I did. I love reading, I love the idea of being in a bookstore, a library or a used book store. Somehow though technology has jumped across the continents, people still do read for fun.

I have tried Kindle but I must say I am not very fond of it. Sure, it is awesome and I will never give it away but I am some one who actually enjoys reading from a physical book. It is a whole different experience to feel the texture of the pages under your finders, to feel the weight of the book or to just flip through the pages for no reason at all.

Reading is such a great hobby to have. Want to know why?

Imagination : I was a kid who could lie down on the grass, stare at the sky and see images from the cloud or tree branches or leaves. Reading develops your mind and makes you very imaginative.

I read the LOTR series when I was 15. My friend too finished hers at the same time. But her middle earth would have been very different from mine. Because though we were reading the exact same lines, every mountain is different, every castle is, every hobbit is, in our head.

Mind is a muscle that needs exercise and reading sure helps to do that.

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Reading help improve your focus. People who read tend to always have more focus and concentrate better compared to people who live in front of the TV(I watch a lot of TV too, but hey I balance it out with my reading, hehe.)

Have you ever been in a verbal argument and you always seemed to end up the winner? This would mostly be because you could express your thoughts better. Why? Because unconsciously you borrowed the lines from all the one thousand characters in your head and put them together.

Just for fun. Reading is the most fun thing to do. At the risk of sounding like a nerd let me say this, It is more fun than being at a party.

So, if you are not a minnow reader yet, do start today. In time you will be turn out to be a whale and that would be the best thing you ever did in your life. Unless of course you have been to the Pyramids of Giza:)