books, reading, & all the cozy things in between
Why I still Read
Our lives are filled with stories. Some are the stories we tell ourselves, and some are the stories that others tell us. Regardless, stories shape how we view ourselves and our capabilities, what we want, what we feel we deserve, and what our lives should look like.
Reading allows us to step outside of those stories designed to limit us, to keep us small. The stories we choose to consume can introduce us to different perspectives, new possibilities, and versions of ourselves we haven’t even imagined yet.
They make our worlds bigger, not smaller. They become part of our inner landscape, reminding us that we have the agency to choose which direction our own stories take and that we don’t have to believe every story that we hear.
Because the world will continue to tell me stories about who I’m supposed to be, I want to keep reading the ones that remind me of just how much say I have in how my own story unfolds.
