There were times when I would be home and don’t feel like leaving the house or playing video games and I’m just sitting there bored. My mother always told to just go read a book and I’ll just be looking at her like are you serious. So when she tells me to do that I just say forget it I’m just going to listen to my music. She always told that I’m so quick to go learn lyrics when I don’t show that same excitement for reading. When my mother told me that, I started to realize that it seems like the majority of the kids in my generation are doing the same thing. My mother always asked me why I prefer music over reading books. And this is what I told her. Music is usually looked at as an expression of ones feelings, thoughts, or living experience. Whereas Books are usually used to expand ones imagination to elevate ones mind to see certain things in a different light. Through my lifetime I’ve notice that the preference is usually listening to music instead of sitting down and reading a book. Here I will be comparing and contrasting these two topics and we will see the impact that music and books have in our lives. The impact that music has on the youth seems as though it has more of a influence on us because music is literary everywhere. Don’t get me wrong, books are everywhere too, but commercially, music is advertised way more than what companies do to get a book noticed on the market. In the town that I’m from people are usually attracted to the negative aspect that music brings, they listen to music where most artists talk about selling drugs, sex and killing, that’s the thing that makes music seem as though there is nothing else to listen to. But if you’re open minded to any kind of music, you see there are a lot more being said then just the simple shoot em up bang bang. The positive part of music it uplifts someone’s soul, it’s something that gives people some kind of hope, something that is there to make you think about life, and encourage you to become a better person or just make you want to change something in your life that’s holding you back. Music really does paint a vivid picture in people head. Books are very useful in this era in time. Books can help people by just giving them the truth and it enlightens them to become a well educated person. Books are needed to help inspire the children and adults to become someone in life and not let them be taken advantage of in no possible way. Reading books can be a life changer to all, as you grow in age you start to realize things and books can explain all those things you need to get to that next level in your life. Books are needed because people can not be the same forever. Books are needed so that you can have a bigger vocabulary, it improves ones writing ability, its gives a person fresh ideas so you can say it expands your imagination and that’s always needed without that you have no kind of personality. The similarities that music and books have are the emotions, thoughts, life experience, word usage and you have to be a skilled writer. In books and music, these things are always included. Just think what if any of these things weren’t in music or books what would happen? I think the whole world wouldn’t be able to cope with the fact that there’s no music or no books a lot of us would be living life in our heads and that wouldn’t be a good thing, we would have no way to express ourselves and that probably would cause people to become violent. In my own opinion, I feel that books is the thing that you really need now in society. I say this because without books there would be a lot of people repeating history and not even knowing it and that’s not something that is good history should be left in the past and never repeated. I feel that books are here to give people knowledge and without knowledge we would just have a lot of ignorant people walking around and not knowing right from wrong. The truth can always be found by just reading. Whereas in music in music you cant really tell if that artist is lying or really telling the truth. You have to understand that books will always have the cold hard facts music is just going to give you what you want to hear. Music and books are two things that are similar and different in many ways. But at the end of the day music and book are always going to be needed to help maintain society.