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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
The thought occurred to me that friends have always asked me; "How can you just sit there and read books? Doesn't it get boring?" This was long before the internet came to homes/businesses.
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It just shows that those people don't see reading books as an activity worth doing on its own. For those people, reading is something you do to fill up time, or if given no other choice.
It's even worse with music.
In the past, I've had people ask me what I did in the evening, and if I said "I listen to music", the followup invariably was: "Yes, we all do, but what are you *doing*?"
For these people, music is just constant background noise.
I've always found it strange why people find it quite normal to say "playing a video game" or "watching a movie" if asked what they are doing, while "reading a book" and "listening to music" are often not considered activities of the same kind.