Why We Read

Why do people waste time reading? It involves way too much unnecessary thinking but it does have its own benefits. One great benefit is that it is a great sleeping aid. Due to that fact that many books are boring, you can now fall asleep faster rather than laying in bed for a long time. Another reason why people read books is to kill time. These people obviously have nothing better to do, so they decide to read the work of someone else, in which that person is most likely making a profit off of this action. So the writer is in fact doing something productive, while the reader is just wasting time and money, because time is in fact, money. On the other hand reading to study is different from reading for fun. When you study you are becoming smarter and more intelligent, allowing you to get better grades and get into a better college; getting into a better college means getting a better job, and getting a better job means increasing that cash flow. So there are actually benefits to reading.