When you're so
engrossed in a book that when you finish it, you become disoriented. You forget
the time and where you are, what was happening. You completely stop time, block
out everything else in this world, only to be sucked in to another. There is
only you and that book, the one that meant more to you than the author probably
thought. You cry during the sad parts, laugh with the characters as if they
were conversing with you, get scared and worried for them too. They would be
your companions. You’d share a special relationship with them, for hours, even
for days. But then you would only know them until where the author allows you
to, nothing more but vast emptiness beyond the ending. You’re left to think
that there wouldn’t be bad days, that everything would be okay from that point
on. You believe that the characters exist somewhere. They couldn’t just be built from paper, not after the way they made you feel and how vivid it was. You
would get plagued with the hope that somehow "this might happen to me too". But it wouldn’t. No not really, because
in reality if life were a novel, it would just end at the good parts with
nothing to look forward to, frozen in utmost bliss. We’d be nothing more than
cardboard cutouts, a representation of something vital and yet lifeless at
the same time.
I'm sorry, but I am really devastated now that the book I've been reading ended. I can't take the deprivation. :(


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