Why Not Read?

It would be like an anteater befriending a mourning dove: one forever blabbing on about how lovely ants taste, and the other waxing lyrical about how the world looks from high above. It just cannot work.

To be honest, I do not understand why someone would choose not to read. I mostly read fiction and I think fiction is where you get the truest answers about life. This life game is tough and so confusing. It is all subterfuge and lies. People behaving in ways incongruent to how they really are under the surface, and you just tumbling along bashing into walls you did not even know were there.