Read Enough That You Want for Nothing

"Read enough, that you want for nothing." Maggie Thom

This quote "Read enough that you want for nothing" came to me earlier this week and really got me thinking ( a good thing I assure you), 'what do we want from reading?'

There are so many reasons for reading and each person has their own personal ones but it really dawned on me that, okay I'm going to take a leap here, that everyone reads to be taken somewhere else. To be suspended in time so that the physical world really has no meaning and really doesn't exist for that period of time, whatever it might be.

We read to fill ourselves up - with knowledge, with understanding, with emotion, with connection, with love, with answers, with questions, with joy, with excitement... We read so that we can experience whatever it is that we need to or want to in that moment. Reading really fills a lot of holes and allows us to experience whatever our heart and/or mind desires. We can pretend being rich and famous, lost and alone, on an exotic island, in the mind of a psychopath, in the throws of love, struggling with life, on top of the world... we can read to immerse ourselves in every feeling, every journey that there is.

Reading has always been a go to for me. When I was young and couldn't be outside...
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