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Escaping Reality

Two Beautiful Hobbies

By Teya HooperPublished 6 years ago 3 min read
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The sound of a turning page: Children are laughing and chatting away. Another sound of a turning page, the other children’s voices are fading away. A final turn of yet another page, and now I am lost in my own little world.

I have always been above average on my reading, even as a child in elementary school. While other children were talking, enjoying their free time by showing what toys that just got, I was sitting comfortably in a chair in the corner, enjoying every little word that crossed my mind as I read whatever book I could get my hands on at the time. A really deep story would always bring a sense of comfort to me. The story would bring comfort back then in elementary school, but its brought even more during my high school career. I could be having the worst day possible, a teacher could have slapped an F on one of my tests, a fight between a best friend and I could have happened, I could have missed a pop fly during softball, but none of that mattered once I opened up a novel that I was reading and lost all my problems with a simple turn of the page. This simple fact has really helped me grow into the person I am today. As impossible as that sounds, reading has incredible ways of making someone patient and imaginative. Reading requires being patient, because to truly enjoy a book, it takes time. Also if someone is really into a novel, it can give people ideas for drawing/painting, music, writing, whatever forms of art that person is talented at. With me, reading opened up my writing part of my mind and gives me partial ideas all the time for different short stories or whatever I feel like writing. Writing is another detail to the journey that has built and shaped me into the human I have become today.

With a scratch of a pen across paper, and the sound of typing on a lap top, my world has transformed from real life to words, explaining every emotion that has drove its way through my heart and through my fingers, to the keys or pen in my hands. Writing did not really become an important part of me until around eighth grade, when I started realizing how relaxing it was just to write down everything that was on my mind and how I had such an easy time typing up an essay or short story. While most of my peers would be complaining about having to type an essay, I was excited and already brainstorming ideas of what I could bring to life with my words. Writing down my thoughts and ideas also helped me turn into the person I am today because I have become more open and do not keep things bottled inside me. It is almost like I pretend that some of my close friends are blank sheets of paper, and I just tell them whatever is on my mind. This is a good thing in my opinion, because keeping things bottled up never helps a situation that is stressing someone out. Also since I do not keep stress, hardships and other problems inside me, I feel like I am just a naturally happier person. It sometimes can even affect the people that are around me a lot. So if I am always in a good mood, then usually they are too and they feel they can talk to me, which just adds to my self esteem and makes me feel like I have become just an all around good person.

These two hobbies of mine have really helped me grow into the genuine person that I am today. Reading and its incredible way of opening the imagination, and hearing the crisp sound of a pen on paper and letting my emotions sore through the pen, will always be my escape from reality and be my window to my own personal story.

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