Literature is What?

I like to read, and I really like it when what I'm reading is literature. I feel good when I do.

Here are some of my thoughts on literature and its what-whats:

Literature is important. I believe it is one's ticket to real personal growth. In some sense, reading literature is growing in the inside. It helps form one's worldview in life. Unlike in the early ages, one's views of the world were usually dictated or described forcibly by the society he, especially she, belongs to. 

Literature is power. It is not just because of the bundles and bundles of knowledge and ideas found in its stories. It is more because of the way these stories, printed in pages amounting to thousands and thousands, seem to come to life, transcending generations and generations of different nations of different races. It compels you to wonder, and even sometimes, it excites you to wander. It is its extraordinary nature, its pure wit, or its estrangement to common language that most of the time, if not always, appeal personally to its readers, making the reader's experience with literature very special. It is how these things seem to penetrate and alter its readers' normal universes perpetually, thus making literature unrecognizably dangerous yet fascinatingly attractive to read, to have, and to experience.

Literature is magic. It is magic how it can affect its reader's life after awhile – how it can suddenly materialize its reader's all-time bucketlist, or dramatically realize his pursuit in life, or unknowingly reform his prejudiced mind. It is magic.

Yep. You know, you should try it sometime.