Best of Week: Living Writer's Lives.

Last week, we discussed an essay called Sea of Information, which is a good title because it did have a lot of information! But in that whole essay, someone found one excellent idea that was a huge part of the discussion because it was so important. This was the idea that reading gives us access to lives we haven't lived, and will probably never live. This really makes me think about how differently each person's life can play out. And also when we talked about how most people believe that when you share a story like that, there is absolutely no body who has had the "exact same" experience as you, and that is really special to have a moment like that. I believe that nobody can tell a story better than the person who lived it, and then when its shared, everybody listening can feel like they were there and "live someone elses life" for a moment. That is something really cool about reading stories like that, because you just get a change for a while, and we can make-believe that were experiencing something new that we may never actually get to experience. But thats the joy of reading I guess, and maybe I can apply that to my thinking next time I read a book I think is bad, or boring. I'll just put myself in that person's shoes and pretend that its my life, and I'm telling the story.