Fiction Makes You Better

Reading fiction makes you a better person.

You can measure it. The exact size of the book, that's how much you're better.

Every single page has worth. Some are more worthy than others, but none will leave you worse by the end.

It's hard, though, to read fiction and it's not encouraged.

Why read when you can stream/watch/play/scroll/message/shit/die/leave...

But there's a book out there with your name on it.

Every single person on the planet has a book that will change their fuckin life and turn them into lifelong readers.

Hardcore, seasoned readers can tell you straight away what their book was, the one that started their addiction.

Find that first hit and you'll ride a wave for the rest of your life, learning and developing your empathy to higher and higher levels you never coulda imagined.

Fiction helps you see the world through someone else's eyes. You're given a world, most of the time it's coherent with characters doing and saying rational things. Sometimes you're just watching what's happening like a movie. Other times you're in someone's head listening to their thoughts.

This means you can see what it's like to be anyone. Every type of person you can think of has written a book. There's no category not covered.

Even if that's not your intention or purpose, you'll stumble across different ways of seeing the world that make sense. It helps you see that your way of seeing the world is only one way of seeing the world.

It drives up your empathy and at the same time it develops your imagination.

People like you if you're empathetic and imaginative. Not because you do anything douchey, but because you treat them like a person.

They're hard skills to learn. Maybe because they're hard to teach. They're no right angles. They're abstract as fuck.

But that's what fiction's for. That's exactly what it's designed to do, to strengthen your imagination and your empathy.

Fiction makes you a better, kinder person, plus it helps you get all the shit you want. Win win muthafucka.