Saturday, March 10, 2012

Nothing

I haven't written anything yet today. At least not here. I just finished The Hunger Games (the first book). I think that when I read something like that (fiction), I get lost in the world inside the book. It becomes reality. Nothing else is real. This is why I read so much when I was young. I loved nothing more than the excitement of exploring another world. Any other world. I could pick up any book and get lost in it.

I'm wondering if this is healthy. I mean, obviously if I were to spend that same amount of time lost in some other world today, it would *not* be healthy. But I wonder if I can even handle one book. Today I feel that all my imagination (creativity?) was used up in thinking about being part of the world in The Hunger Games. I could probably take something from that and use it if I thought about it for a while, but I haven't yet. I think the temptation to lose myself in books like this might be a bit much for me. I don't know.

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