A Book is a Gift (Reflection #3)

A book is a gift. People cherish them, honor them and take them pretty much everywhere they go. Some may argue it is the best gift you could possibly receive! Gifts are something people want, not necessarily need just like how books are something a lot of people want to have. They like to be able to pick up a good novel and use their imagination to escape from reality for a few hours. But it is no longer a necessity in life to have a non-fiction book that we can learn from. Everything we could ever think of is somewhere on the internet and only a click away. Joe Meno said, “Television, film, even the stage play, have already been imagined for us, but the book, in whatever form we choose to interact with it, focuses us to complete it.” I strongly agree with this quote because I know as I read, I imagine the book as if it was a movie in my head and make a million connections with it. I am the filmmaker, it is whatever I want it to be unlike me watching a movie. I can’t change the ending of a movie; it has already been decided and produced for all to see.