Can't you see I'm reading?

"Why are you reading?" they say. "Why are you breathing?" I say. I need books to survive. I would definitely come back after my favorite book in a burning house. It's just how I chose to live. Books are more loyal than "friends" or dogs or whoever looks interested in you. I've never had a boyfriend or a date. I don't have time for that and I do not find pleasure at all to stay more than 5 minutes with someone who doesn't understand me. Maybe that's because I leave in an area where reading is close to being banned. No one reads here. I feel like an alien sometimes and they treat me like that. I don't want to make other people read. I want them to let me read!