How Reading has changed my Life

I completely disagree with this lady. She is stating the stories are better read than told to, but if that were true why have stories been told for thousands of years where reading and writing has just become a big thing lately. You could say that it is because they were not smart enough to figure out a system of writing but if that were true then how could they come up with a system of speaking. I believe it would take jsut as much intellegence to start a language as it would to begin to write a language. With reading you don't have interaction among real living people, you don't get to be with friends, you are imagining things that are not real and for some those not real characters become better friends than the real friends that they have. I just feel like her essay is extremely oppinionated which may be the reason she wrote it but for me, I would choose spoken word over letters on a paper.