Worlds Apart

Here’s why I believe reading fiction is the cure to social media.

When your on social media you’re consuming the world.

When you read a novel, you are creating a world.

Books contain vivid details you recreate in your mind.

Social media robs you of discernment and leaves you blind.

Books connects you to new worlds

Social media keeps you on an island

Dying of thirst while surrounded by water.

Surrounded by people but feeling no connection,

What you feel in a book is real,

Because it’s a true reflection.

Of who you are, what you think,

what you feel, what you see,

It’s all tinged through with the hue of

Me.

Reading is intimate, personal, interpretation.

Social media leaves you lost in desperation.