I am certainly a
book-lover; and since it is always fashionable to say books are our best
friends I might have said that too sometimes. But at times I feel books have also
been my enemy. In my growing years, when I read a few on Psychology for example,
books gave me a feeling as if I “knew it all” after reading those. Now I feel books
give pseudo feeling that we have become learned after reading.
I like to observe
little things. I know everyone claims to be sensitive, since it is good to say
so and it is true also to some extent, but does everyone really “care” about
sensitivity? Books made me consider all people as reasonable individuals with
sensible thinking; but real life has been urging me to “unlearn” these things.
I have so many
friends who have not read many books but know this world better than any book-readers.
And I respect them for not reading books; most books are anyway second-hand
opinion. I guess this is why they made terms like “bookish” with a basic premise
that this world is not as they write in books.
I think I love Shahid
Bhagat Singh’s view on books best – reading a book is a conversation with the
writer. Nothing more than that…
(C) Rahul
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