T.V or Literature?

Television.... this is definitely a quite extraordinary invention. Though it is not always the best resource for information or the best for your brain. Television is bad for the mind and weakens your eyes significantly. But did you know you can get the same amount of action, suspense, romance, or whatever you want in the pages of a book? And it's better for your mind and eyes.

Television does many things for you if you want a fun and relaxing date night with your loved one or a girls' or boys' night out, or if you were to say watch animal planet or PBS kids which are great learning programs that television provides. Though sitting down all day doing nothing but watching Television could warp your mind and hurt you mentally and sometimes physically if you don’t limit your watching time. Now I'm in no way saying you are a bad person for watching television, I enjoy a good show myself, but you don't want to spend all day on the television. 

Why not sit down and drink some coffee while curled up with a book? You get the same amount of gory action you'd get in World War Z in a good action book. Books strengthen your eyesight along with your reading and spelling abilities. Plus you get so much more out of a book, you can become the character you can take the description of the setting of the story and create your own touches. A movie chooses everything for you, they decide the character and the setting so where is the fun part where you get to add your own imagination? I myself am a big fan of exploring the unknown and imagining wild adventures to send myself on so a book a great way to do that. You take their story line, setting, and characters and use your imagination from there.

One thing though a television does for you that a book does not is put your imagination into reality, you can't normally read a book and then make that story happen in reality. A movie does that for you and that's why you find that more people watch movies instead of reading. Many people agree with this because they too love the fact that the movie makes the book reality. Though this is great on so many levels, why would you still want to miss out on those books that were never put on screen? Well for instance The Gallagher Academy, A wonderful thrilling, romantic, crime fighting six book series, but unfortunately unpopular due to the fact that it was never put on screen. People miss out on some of the greatest adventures or beautiful acts love all because they didn't want to pick up a book. That seems like a real shame. To me a great adventure starts with your imagination, a movie has its perks, but if you think about it the only people using their imaginations during a movie are the actors and directors themselves. Just remember the next time a friend tells you that they may have found a book you may like, don’t turn them down with the so very popular excuse I’ll wait for it to go in theaters instead take their word for it and try it out, you may just find yourself in a new land you never knew existed. One not even a screen can bring you to.