Why Read?

I love to read. I don't read as often as I used to, because of school and work and other things that get in my way, but I still enjoy it all the same. I don't read much nonfiction, I read to find a good story, and I like finding that secondary meaning. I feel like every story has at least 2 layers; the one everyone that can read and understand a metaphor could find, and then theres the one you have to think about, the meanings that are only revealed in underlying message the author is trying to get through your head.