Books are still the most immersive medium.
I highly respect art, and love the ways your eyes can get lost and your mind can wander the labyrinth that the artist may have traveled in their journey of creating this piece.
I love music, letting it reverberate through my soul as the melody moves me and I am touched by the lyrics that crafted that artist's experiences into living sound.
I adore films, both being a part and watching from afar. The mixture of visual stimulus with musical scores creates an experience that takes us somewhere else, somewhere magical for a time.
Books however, bring us to those places deep within our own minds and souls. The experience becomes deeply personal because we are making that journey with those characters as we read each word and turn each page.
We may hear those characters thoughts. We see them in our mind. We rejoice in their triumph and our hearts break at their losses.
But what forever sets books apart from all other mediums is the deeply personal experience each reader has within their own imaginations. Exploring that world within our own minds until it becomes a part of us.
This is an experience that can never be replaced or substituted.
The written word is not dead. Those who are not reading are simply limiting their own depth of living.
And so, read on my friends.
