Earlier today, I saw a photo feature on libraries in celebration of the National Library Week. I love books and my grand plan is to live on top of a book store one day, but looking at the photos on that list gave me a realization. It seems that I have a problem with libraries, particularly the order inside libraries. The shelves standing in attention, the rows of books aligned next to each other, the rules that govern the place… I can’t breathe.
Naturally, I understand the advantages of this order and how valuable it is when you are trying to arrange tons and tons of books, but I think I would rather be in a place where books are everywhere it seems a bomb hit the place – books on top of each other, on the floor, on the tables, on the stairs. I would rather be lost and out of my wits in search of a book, that I have to go through the messy piles, and maybe I’ll find more wonders than what I am originally looking for. I would rather have books mangled because of overuse, and some titles missing because they are being read by my sisters or my friends.
I don’t want silence. I want the space to be alive with people discussing the book on their hands. I want to hear passion and hate towards characters and events. I want to see people trading suggestions and I want them drinking coffee or eating something nice as they read, staining the books and marking the pages with chocolate.
Pretty much, the library that I have in my head resembles a bar room brawl… but of the best possible sort.
Prinsesa's Anatomy 
Library was my home back in college.
you are funny. i actually enjoy the silence that the library offers on those few times that i enter them.
idk, it seems a bit clinical to me. i have not gone inside a library in years though.
I only entered the library twice in college. first to get a library card during my first year. and last to get a library clearance as a requirement for graduation.
di rin ako rat ng library. tsaka maliit lang yung library ng school ko.
tatlo yata yung sa amin. pero instead nasa computer shop ako nagdodota lol.
dumaan din ako dyan pero di dota.