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An Ode to Books

Books are these things that we have created that have driven our centuries, our society forward.

There are either people who are obsessed with books or there are people who do not like books.

There are billions of books all over the world written in different languages and scriptures about everything and anything. We create stories and books bring them to life. There is something magical about books that make us forget about the life even when we want to cherish everything written about the life. Those are the lived experiences in the books and we want to re-live them as we go.

There are good books, there are bad books. There are long books and short books. And there are fat books and thin books. You want a book about any subject, you will get that. Writing a book or reading a book have been the greatest leisure activities. We use books to run away from loneliness and the same books keep us away from social life.

Books have been here for centuries and the greatest gift we humans have created.

There are stories what if we burn the books, what if we ban all the books. Knowledge is dangerous. It challenges human  for everything, it grows like a tree. The same trees give us paper for books.

Years have changed, some books stay as they were. The only medium of books have changed. We have more electronic books now. But we still read. We continue to read for fun, for work, for school.

Some books don’t end. They create memories, memories of life long. They create such a romantic impression on our mind that we forget about the sorrows of our lives. Fiction tells us more truth than newspaper. We rarely notice. But books do. At the end, we are all in search of truth and books take us there.

Nevertheless, books take us through life, they take us through joy, they make us fly. Someone wiser once said – books are the greatest treasure.

We write, we read and the words in the books make our lives. Books are the romance and they are our adventure.

If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it. – Toni Morrison

 

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