Today my daughter asked me: “Mom, why do we read?” I said: / Here is what I told her: “Reading can make your life colorful and interesting. If you just live your life without reading, then you are just leading one kind of a life. But if you read books and learn about the lives of various characters in these books, you can experience more and feel more. This will make you an interesting person and make your life colorful. We seldom have the occasion to live many different lives in one lifetime but we can experience the colorful lives of the characters depicted in books. The more we read, the more pleasure and colorfulness we can feel.”

Today my daughter asked me, “Mom, why do we read?” I said, “Reading can make your life colorful and interesting. If you just live your life without reading, then you are just leading one kind of life. But if you read books and learn about the lives of various characters in the books, you can experience more and feel more. This will make you an interesting person and make your life colorful. Sometimes we can’t experience different lives by ourselves but we can experience colorful lives through the characters in the books. The more we read, the more pleasure and colorfulness we can feel.”