Library Boy

I grew up reading books from the libraries in the schools I attended. The first book I can remember reading was a science fiction book about the aftermath of a nuclear war, where only a few people survived and most of them were in dire need of food and water. That was a post-apocalyptic novel, and I have read many of them in the decades since. The fact that we have not yet brought this fate to the human race suggests that we have better impulse control than we give ourselves credit for.

Later in my school years I went to the public library in the town of Durango, Colorado. There were many more books in there than in the school libraries, and I expanded my reading accordingly.

The public library also had a meeting room where some friends and I played role-playing games. There were half a dozen of us, and for the most part this was great fun. As my mother said, it kept us away from doing drugs.

Modern libraries have internet-enabled computers for even wider reach than in the past. The library continues to evolve as an information hub, and who knows what budding genius is even now checking out a book that will fuel his mind and enrich the human race?