Literature

I've always been viewed as a little weird because I was one of the few kids in school who really enjoyed my English and literature classes. When everyone else would groan about having to read Pygmalion or The Odyssey, I viewed it as a pleasurable chore, kinda like washing dishes. Reading takes you into a whole new world, transports you into another life, and sometimes that escape is the most magical thing about literature. Whether its written for educational purposes or for sheer entertainment, the written word sets us directly into the author's world. It's how we know about the events that shaped our world, and the people that helped change it. How else can you understand what the Crusades were like? What's another way to know what life was like on the home front during the Revolutionary War? Literary works are like a time capsule that can survive centuries, and be passed down from generation to generation. It can educate you, entertain you, move you, challenge you. From making you laugh to breaking your heart to absolutely changing your view on the world, literature has always been the cornerstone of art. It's the world's story, written down for everyone to read and take from it what you will. A single line can change your life...it can give you a purpose, destroy a notion, motivate you to be more than you are. Every person ever born has a story to tell. We're given a blank sheet of paper at birth (or maybe a prologue) and it's up to us to fill in the rest. More than anything, I want to give the world a story, one that nobody else can give it. And maybe my story can help another kid escape when the world just gets to be too much.