Why do we read?

people mostly read to learn or entertain themselves, personally i only read when i have to. It would be a lot easier for me to write why don't people read since i hate reading but Just like i have to read, i have to write about why people do read. I think people that like to read probably either don't have a television or they rather make up their own pictures in their heads of the story. I can imagine why they would rather visualize things themselves because they get to make up their own movie basically, but that requires too much thinking and i hate thinking. I think the main purpose of reading is to learn, even if a book is fictional and isn't suppose to be about learning you always learn something new after read. People may also read so that they can kill time, time goes by pretty fast when you read. Out of the books that i have read in the past the ones i like the most are the ones that i can relate to and i think many people would agree with me on that. Reading does have some benefits though, If it wasn't for reading we wouldn't be able to pass information, news and stories to each other. If history wasn't writ en and read, the information would be changed and inaccurate if we relied on telling each other by talking. It is better we write things down so it can be passed down to future generations. As much as i hate reading I'd be lying if i didn't say the world would be chaos if we didn't read.