Presents

Birthday just passed. Received presents here and there.

But I realised that the present that I will always treasure the most would be the gift of literacy.

The ability to read Foxtrot, Calvin and Hobbes and laugh.

The ability to marvel at Sandman by Neil Gaiman.

The ability to be tickled by Terry Pratchet and Tom Holt.

The ability to wonder "What If?" by Harry Turtledove.

The ability to imagine with worlds gone by and yet to come, of lands near and far, of situations both possible and impossible.

Ah.. Bliss.