There is a saying about getting lost in a book. It’s a metaphor of course, but it hadn’t happened to me until now. The complete idea of getting lost in a book is an incredible thing, its similar to when you zone out, or your eyes un-focus and stay isolated like that for a while. The way you’re body is positioned could be incredibly uncomfortable,  but you’re mind is so focused on processing the words you’re reading and understanding the story and plot that you’re almost numb. Numb to things that are happening around you. Numb to voices, and anything that is happening outside of the letters strung together that seem to make up an entertaining story. A story bonded with a paper or hardcover backing, a story that could be something that changes your life, but is merely paper and letters. You could call to someone that's lost in a book, but they could not hear you. They might physically hear you, but their mind and body and energy are all focused on reading. Almost as if their only purpose has become reading what is written on the pages of a fictional adventure. As a budding and hopeful author, my one goal was to write something that would one day matter so much to someone, or interest them in such a way that nothing else mattered to them in that moment except reading the words I had written. Others dream of their work gracing the front cover of a magazine, or having to print gross amounts of their book because the largest book store in the country just bought every copy. But truly, the cliche saying "quality over quantity" is true. People write to make money, in a nutshell. But have you ever met an author thats only purpose in writing is to please others and see that their work mattered to other people besides their parents. Who seem to think anything they do is wonderful, and so their opinion isn’t quite valid. My point is, the reason I write (I’ve discovered) is because my gold at the end of the rainbow will be for someone to become completely enveloped in my words. My words that could be in the form of a book, article, or anything that I could release for the public to read. That feeling of achievement and self-worth, that incredible feeling, is the only thing I’ll ever need in return for my work.