Reading

Watching television would lead one to believe that the world is filled with crazy drama mongers whose biggest goal in life is to be top dog at any price, well as long as it does not involve any sort of nine to five job. And while I don't really have a problem with this, I don't have a nine to five job either, I find it rather repetitive and boring after a while.

I guess people really don't want to watch television programs or movies where people go through their regular routines of tooth brushing, sleeping, eating and watching TV.  We DO have those programs, lots of them actually, but they "spice" them up with people acting badly.

The beauty of books is that I can get a look into people's lives when they are doing mundane every day things and what makes that fascinating is that I am privy to their thoughts and motives and history while they are doing it. When one of my son's was very young he asked me, one day, "Wouldn't you like to know what people really say and do and think when you aren't there?"

I would!

It is one of the things I enjoy most about reading. Good writers are able to convey how it feels to be different -- whether that difference is race, gender, religious, or even crazy.

To be who I am feels normal to me -- until I come in contact with the rest of the world and they hold up fun house mirrors that reflect back -- not really me, but the crazy notions they have about who or what I am.

So I love it when I find a book that talks about all those things I find awkward or am afraid to ask and if there is a good story around it all the better.