I want to share my reading experience.
I read lots of Harry Potter fan fiction. I didn’t read anything else for couple of years. I was obsessed. I shared with people my love for reading, but I couldn’t share what I was reading. Because everything in my society should be driven towards accomplishment. There is no space for indulgence. If you indulge in any self pleasures, you will be behind in race. Reason is, your counterparts are reading Non Fiction and educational stuff.
Due to this mindset, it became guily pleasure.
Again, in my culture, the obsession with Harry Potter fan fiction would not have made me Outlier.

I have to admit though, exclusive/obsessive/too much reading did take my balance away. I was living in another world.
Balance is they key.
Later I realized that books too waste time like TV and Internet. We need to take them in limited dose. Every book does not deserve cover to cover read, n few of them you read again and again.
Now, what I like is my cheat meal. What I need to read is my diet plan.