I like reading books

I like reading books

Reading gives space and time to think

Without books,
just sitting still,
how long can we keep thinking?

It seems
we need some small, simple physical activity to think,
like flipping pages or walking

The other day, in a cafe

I had to open the very first page of a book

Just behind the cover, it was still a blank space
But I needed that page

I was listening to music for the first time in 3 months and wanted to indulge in it

Yet,
if I just sat and gazed at nowhere in a busy cafe in a peaceful shopping mall,
I would "disturb" the public

"Listening to music" is invisible to others
"Performance" was needed

And I found out, reading a book is the way to stay here seemingly, while my inner world goes a million miles away from this mall, this city, this island, this planet, this my existence