What is Literature?

I have a long journey with literature. I have completed 5 years with literature. In first look literature means books and theories for me but now I think literature is beyond those things, it has teach me how to live life.

When I have Started my M.A. I was just read literature. But, now i feel literature in real life also. That's why its a mirror of society.When i come in MA that time I was Wrote this about literature but Now its meaning is completely change in my mind.