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Co-worker: No one reads books anymore. Everyone binge-watches television shows. There's so much on.
Me: I do. I read books. And I write them.
Co-worker: You are in the minority.


Sigh.

Please tell this is NOT true. Please, please tell me that I am not in the minority!

Anyone???


If I were to rank my cultural interests they would remain:

1. Books
2. Music
3. Live Theater and Dance
4. Television/Film

I can live without TV. I have before. I cannot live without books. It took me forever to figure out how to read. I desperately wanted to. I could escape into the books, into another world, and cast the characters as I saw fit. Hear them in my head. Skip ahead. Skim. No commericals. Complete control.
And I could tell myself stories, spin them.

Books teach you empathy. They take you into someone else's head. I love them. You can read them anywhere.