As I write this on my desk, I haven’t yet made “more” space in my room to accomodate the extra books that lie on the either side of my desk centering my laptop. I’ll clean it up with a permanent solution within a week, but here is the deeper point:
Reading books is creating your own story. We remember a lot of books about when we read them, and what they made us feel. How we cried when we were looking forward to feeling good. How we put the book down and paused for a bit. How we wanted to gift that very specific book to someone else, but you realise people meet books at the right time, not before that.
As a matter of fact, the same book means a different story to every single person who reads it.
It also doesn’t matter if the book is a bestseller. If you are an avid reader, I can still bet on the fact that 95% of your books are non-bestsellers. Just because your Mom isn’t famous, doesn’t mean she isn’t the best. Just because a book isn’t very well known, doesn’t mean it is not the hug you need right now.
Books are all-time best friends that are there with you, do not judge you, and get you off the cliff you didn’t even know you were dangling on.
The world would come to a standstill without books. To everyone who reads books and to everyone who writes books and to everyone at Bahrisons booksellers (because you are my favourites), thank you.
