Books meant a great deal to Hazel, especially the book An imperial affliction, that´s probably what kept her going many times when she felt like giving up. Books let you escape the reality, you get to focus on someone else’s problems instead of your own. Well I don´t have cancer and I’ve never gone through something traumatic, but I believe that books have helped me through a lots of things too. I read because it is relaxing and I am stressed pretty often, so it is nice to just sit down and escape for a moment. When I was younger people told me that I liked to read fantasy books because a wanted to escape the reality, I thought it was stupid. Why would I want to escape reality? I loved my life and would never want to be someone else. But as I grew older I realized that they were right, I do read to escape reality, I do wish I could live in all the worlds I read about and live the life the characters do. …show more content…
Everything is just so much more interesting in books and sometimes it feels like I am closer to the book characters than to my real friend, even though they don´t even know I exist. None of my friends is very fond of books, they prefer to watch movies and tv-series and so do the rest of my family. I like that too, but it´s not the same thing. The thing with books is that you pretty much become the person you are reading about, you get to know everything about them, how they think and how they act. It have helped me through situations when I don´t know what to do. People constantly gets annoyed because I never can make up my mind. If I then think about what a character would do, how they would consider the situation, it´s easier to know what they would do than what I would do. I know that kind of bad, because I have to “think on my own” as my mum tells me, but sometimes it´s just very