The world is divided into two kinds of people, readers and everybody else. Reading is not just a habit it’s a way to be. A person who reads is often by himself but never alone.
Here is a list of sixteen amazing things that all book lovers would relate to.
1. Everything from boarding pass to railway ticket becomes a bookmark for you
Sometimes you use price tags too!
2. While you look for bookmarks, this annoying habit of non readers really puts you off
That is NOT how you treat a book!
3. Nothing is more refreshing than the smell of new book
I wish there was a perfume with the fragrance of a book.
4. More often than not Kindle does not light any fire with you
We like our books hard bound and printed.
5. As a kid your mother always warned you ‘Chashma lag jayega!’
Early signs of developing into a serious reader.
6. ‘Keetabe bahut se paadhi hongi tumne…’ should not be used as a pick up line
Never works. Just letting you know.
7. You always get grief for reading on vacations and are often labelled anti-social
Reading is my idea of a vacation. Why is it so hard to understand?
8. No movie adaptation can ever be as good as the book
Period.
9. You can ask a reader her salary, you can even ask her age. But do NOT ask her for her books
Especially if you are the types who wouldn’t return it.
10. When you get a friend request on Facebook you invariably end up checking the list of books they have read
We don’t judge a book by its cover but we do judge people by the books they read.
11. A reader will always be curious about what the other person on the next table is reading
And will go out of his way to find out.
12. You have spent nights finishing a book. Sobbing, laughing, and enjoying the world the writer paints
In the meantime everyone else around you thinks you are slowly turning delirious.
13. You often forget to eat or sleep because what you are reading is just unputdownable
What a joy that feeling is. To be so involved that everything else around you ceases to exist.
14. Your friends believe that you have all the answers. ‘Tu bata na yaar. Tu toh kitna padhta hai’
And the truth is that you don’t have the answers. Just like them, you are exploring.
15. People have no difficulty buying you a gift
Most of your gifts are books. No surprises here.
16. Your retirement plan revolves around owning a quaint book store cum coffee house in a corner of a bustling street. Somewhere in the mountains
Where all you do is read. What a life that would be.