How does reading a book may change your life?

     Your way of thinking, your imagination, even your way to see the world; to see the things change when you read a book. And when you read more than one, you find common things between those worlds, those characters, those events, because there are similar names. It is then when you say yourself: What if all of these places were the same one, but with another name? It is in that moment, and from that moment on, when you find it the most obvious thing of the world, even if it is perhaps unreasonable: maybe impossible. But, couldn´t it be part of the same story, with changing names across time? Words evolve, life evolves too; so, why not? Ah! How would you like then to be the author of those ideas, those stories, those books! And it is because of this that people who read have such a good memory. I think that it is feeling all of this that makes our memory grow, our memory improve.

     All of these feelings reduce into one: nostalgia. And it is complicated to feel this because each feeling, each emotion, has a particular characteristic. It is not the same to be happy because you are going to receive something than to be happy because you are going somewhere or to meet someone. You also imagine your life, your future in a different way. If for example, you read Harry Potter, you will imagine your house in a different way than how you would imagine it if you read Eragon, or both. This is felt a t the same time. Once you get used to it, it is the most beautiful thing, even though it is sad to feel it. Opposite to what others may say, reading has never satisffied my soul. You always want the story to continue. And when you find your favorite song to read, you can relate it to any story, to any event; may it be sad, happy, funny, boring... there is always something to calm you down, making you troubled, worried and pulling you more towards, calling you louder and louder every time.

     If you read while listening to music that you like, you enjoy the story in a very different way than to if you read it is silence or with noisy background. If people disturb you a lot and you listen to music while reading, you learn to read in a special way; ignoring everything around you, concentrating just in the story but without stopping to listen that music. Later, you can hear just specific sounds without losing concentration.

The farther you go... the harder it is to come back. The world has many cliffs, and it´s easy to fall of (Anderson Cooper).

                                                                                                                                            Fernanda León