Why read?

 

YouTube is wonderful. Truly. It has music, cooking, DIY explosions, conspiracy theories, and people reacting to other people reacting to videos. It’s like an all-you-can-eat buffet where everything is deep-fried and sprinkled with dopamine.

But reading? Reading is a five-star dinner for your brain.

It doesn't shout at you, it doesn’t autoplay the next chapter, and it definitely doesn’t ask you to “like, share, and subscribe.”

Reading is quiet magic.

A book hands you a whole world and says, “Here, imagine it—your turn.”

YouTube shows it to you in 4K and then steals your attention for three hours while you forget why you opened the app.

When you read, your brain becomes the director, the actor, the special-effects team—

all on a zero-budget blockbuster that somehow feels richer than CGI.

When you watch YouTube, your brain becomes… a tourist.

A happy tourist with snacks, sure, but still just a tourist.

Books have no ads.

Books don’t pause because the Wi-Fi sneezed.

Books don’t say, “Video unavailable due to copyright issues.”

Books don’t track your data or decide you should now watch a man living in the forest making soup in a hole.

Reading teaches patience, imagination, empathy.

YouTube teaches… how to skip ads really, really fast.

And look, my dear son, I’m not asking you to stop watching YouTube.

Far from it. Watch your tutorials, your memes, your gaming legends.

But understand this:

Reading is how you upgrade your mind from “standard edition” to “premium, ad-free, 100% original brainpower.”

So the next time you ask, “Why read when I can watch YouTube?”

Remember this:

YouTube entertains you.

Reading builds you.

One makes you laugh.

The other makes you think.

And if you want to survive adulthood with wisdom instead of just… playlists,

you’ll need both.

Class dismissed. And no, you cannot fast‑forward this lecture. 😄