A reader is someone who consumes.
Words, phrases, revelations, entire worlds can be devoured in one afternoon sitting, and yet the reader is still not satisfied.
The reader’s preferences can vary from fiction to nonfiction; prose to poetry; essay to novel, but the appetite for more after the last word is read is still the same. A reader can look at the full feast or the tiny, intricate details that go into each step and still be satisfied that they even have substance to gaze upon. A reader takes a bite whenever and wherever they can- in the subway, on a bench, before bed, while bustling to class. A reader looks for any mode, any utensil, any way to gobble up whether it be by newspaper clipping, or by the bright phone held close to their face, or the old classic of a physical book.
A reader takes a chance whenever they sit down with a new text, a chance to be delighted, to be scared, to be inspired, to be bored straight out of their mind, or to just be in the moment of every line that has been written for them to enjoy.
And sometimes it is true that even the most ravenous of readers have to excuse themselves and take a break, because sometimes it is too much to handle and sometimes it is that they cannot appreciate the text fully because they do not know the exact words to describe its taste or cannot wrap their head around what it’s trying to be. So the reader takes a step back and often they do come back, and often they do not because not every story is to their liking, and not every story is made to be liked.
But the reader does not stop searching for the next right one, because the reader, at the end of the day, is a learner and a learner is insatiable.
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