Could you date someone who doesn't read?
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Re: Could you date someone who doesn't read?
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Also! Here is a thing that I found a while ago and I would like to share:
You should date a girl who reads.
Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes, who has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve.
Find a girl who reads. You’ll know that she does because she will always have an unread book in her bag. She’s the one loving looking over the shelves the shelves inthe bookstore, the one who quietly cries out when she has found the book she wants. You see that weird chick sniffing the pages of an old book in a second hand bookshop? That’s the reader. They can never resist smelling the pages, especially when they are yellow and worn.
She’s the girl reading while waiting in that coffee shop down the street. If you take a peek at her mug, the non-dairy creamer is floating on top because she’s kind of engrossed already. Lost in a world of the authors making. Sit down. She might give you a glare, as most girls who read do not like to be interrupted. Ask her if she likes her book.
Buy her another cup of coffee.
Let her know what you really think of Murakami. See if she got through the first chapter of Fellowship. Understand that if she says that she understood James Joyce’s Ulysses she’s just saying that to sound intelligent. Ask her if she loves Alice or would like to be Alice.
It’s easy to date a girl who reads. Give her books for her birthday, christmas, and anniversaries. Give her the gift of words, in poetry and in song. Give her Neruda, Pound, Sexton, Cummings. Let her know that you understand that words are love. Understand that she knows the difference between books and reality but by god, she’s going to try to make her life a little like her favorite book. It will never be your fault if she does.
She has to give it a shot somehow.
Lie to her. If she understands syntax, she will understand your need to lie. Behind words are other things: Motivation, value, nuance, dialogue. It will not be the end of the world.
Fail her. Because a girl who reads always knows that failure leads up to the climax. Because a girl who reads understands that all things must come to an end, but that you can always write a sequel. That you can begin again and again and still be the hero. That life is meant to have a villain or two.
Why be frightened of everything that you are not? Girls understand that people, like characters, develop. Except in the Twilight series.
If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2 AM with a book clutched to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She’ll talk as if the characters in a book a real, because for a while, they always are.
You will propose in a hot air balloon. Or during a rock concert. Or very casually the next time she’s sick.. Over Skype.
You will smile so hard you will wonder why your heart hasn’t burst and bled out all over your chest yet. You will write the story of your lives, have kids with strange names and even stranger tastes. She will introduce your children to the Cat in the Hat and Aslan, maybe in the same day. You will walk the winters of your old age together and she will recite Keats under her breath while you shake the snow off your boots.
Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable. If you can only give her monotony, and stale hours and half-baked proposals, then you’re better off alone. If you want the world and the worlds beyond it, date a girl who reads.
--Rosemarie Urquico
*This applies to guys as well*
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This is awesome. I think the end of the matter is whether both of you can understand each other because we will never be exactly the replica of the other person especially when it comes to interests.
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There's nothing so beautiful then thinking and growing mentally, I prefer to date a man that read,that's what I find attracts in a man. He just have to be intelligent period or I wouldn't take him seriously the six packs and all is nothing without the brain because all those will fade away.
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