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Reality or imagination?

I sat in my room, watched my show and studied all day long. Not once did I step out of the house. At least not until I saw the sky, the sun was setting down and the orange clouds had this touch of pink color almost making the clouds look like cotton candy. I decided to go out of the house to get a picture of the same, and my dad asked if I wanted to go to this garden near my house, which would give me a better view of the sky. I immediately agreed and within seconds we were on his motorbike, riding away to the garden.

I got the pictures I wanted and we were pretty satisfied with it. After we got home my father and I sat down to edit these pictures. He increased the contrast on one of the pictures so much that it started to look like a painting, and I said to him, “We can’t keep the contrast so high, this picture looks like a painting. This is not a painting, this is picture clicked in real-time.”

So he asked me that aren’t pictures supposed to look like paintings? And I said that paintings are drawn from imagination, whereas pictures always show the reality.
This really got me thinking, and I realized how pictures can usually say so much. We often fail to recognize the importance of a picture. Technology these days has allowed us to click a picture so easily, it is so easy to capture something and save it forever. Sometimes it is known as a great skill, but in all honesty, it is just a mere use of the technological devices that are available. A great skill however, is when one knows the true meaning of a picture. And the true meaning is, that it is simply a picture, capturing the moment, clicked in real-time.

But I wonder, do most of us feel the same joy as I did while I was sitting on that motorbike, smiling at the thought of getting the opportunity to click a picture. That joy of being able to capture what you wanted, or perhaps that disappointment when you miss out on it. A picture is not only something that captures the moment, it also captures the emotions of the person who clicked the picture.

Hello World!

This is the first time I will be writing anything like this, so I definitely have no idea how to do it right. But I do know that this is one of the best ways to communicate on a larger platform and I will definitely take advantage of this in the same manner as other people my age do.

This account is mainly about book reviews, but today I thought that as my first post, I will share how reading books makes me feel. When people say that books take you into a whole new world, books allow you to live many lives in one lifetime, books take you to places that you never thought you would find out about, they are right. All these things is what one single book does to me. It is my escape from the reality, but it also shows me a different kind of reality. The kind that an average sixteen year old would not be able to witness if it weren’t for her big fat paperback book.

When I began my journey of reading, it was mostly because everybody around me carried a book and so I wanted to fit in and have something common to talk about. However, I noticed that as years passed, I actually started taking more interest into reading. It started to become my ultimate source of happiness, the one thing that compelled me to put my phone down and just read. So far I have experienced 40 different stories, I have been a part of 40 different lives. Some of these I will cherish for life, while the others I will be grateful for, as they were still the only source of my happiness. Where ever I go, I always make sure to carry a book along with me. Reading has taught me how to fall in love with my own company, it has taught me that I will not always be surrounded by people and that is completely fine. I have also learned the significance of keeping some parts about me to myself, I have learned how writing my own emotions and reading them again helps me make to make sense of everything that I am feeling. It may not be a lot, but it is definitely a start and I cannot wait to go on many more journeys and read many more wonderful stories which take me from one reality to another.