I just can’t help myself.

I read to learn and to grow, to laugh and to be motivated.

I read to understand things I’ve never been exposed to.

I read when I’m crabby, when I’ve just said monumentally dumb

things to the people I love.

Why do I read? How could I not? It’s the best way to learn about other people, places, experiences. It’s the only way I might ever get to Paris or New York. It’s the best way to sink into someone else’s mind and understand where their ideas and attitudes come from. How else can I learn all the things I want to learn? How else can I learn things that I didn’t even know that I needed to learn? Reading is the best way to understand our humanity, our history, ourselves. 

42% of college graduates will never read another book after they are done with school. That is immeasurably sad to me. If only they knew what they were missing.