Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Something To Read

What’s the problem here, so you don’t like the reading, but on the other hand you do some writing. Now please explain that to me-a. On one hand you’re telling me about how unnecesary it is to be reading books all the time, how unnecesary it is to be culturizing yourself all the time by literary means. How unnecesary it is even to be culturizing yourself constantly just because it is something that makes you feel better, that actualy occupies your mind easing the need of having to do something. On the other hand you are actualy eapressing these thoughts of yours by means of writen language. This action automaticaly makes somebody have to read it, so therefore we are facing a contradiction. It is obvious that if you preach something you should not be creating something that violates the theory, or something that helps people to totally go over what is supposed to be learned and be practiced by the subject. Let’s stop to expand the theory for a second.

The thing goes a little something like this, well let’s make a small analysis of what reading is in the first place. Reading just like any other activity done while you have spare time, is exactly that, a simple activity done to occupy yourself or if you want to be more precise your mind. Some people may need it in a harder dose and others in a weeker one. Children and teenagers for example might be satisfied with tales, stories or comics. Something that does not have a very twisted vocabulary or a mind spinning story in it. Something to literarily enjoy, have a good time and as it is meant to be by reading, something to ease the mind with. Adults genraly tend to fill in this reading simposium with literature, containing a deeper vocabulary or sometimes even with a certain meanning. This is the purpose of novels, philosophy and other long paged books. For those people that still want to be part of the literary acquired knowledge there is the possibility of reading newspapers. This of course will grant the reader with only a certain knowledge not taking away importance, and will have to be renewed often. In last position we have those who will not be pleased by just resting their mind on some ordinary story, or by something that just makes them have a good time. These western cultured readers are those seeking something surpassing reality, those who have a bigger belief than those things that can be reached by our reality percieving senses. We will give these the name of spiritual readers. Now once this is explained we shall go back again and analise or explain why dsepite most of the knowledge in the world is brought to us in a writen form, there is not necessarily a need to read it is rather another time spending hobby.

In order to explain this we will first set a very simple example, where everysingle one of us is able to feel and understand the situation. In order to do this we have to take something that is commonly done, and done with naturality. Let us take for example something such as eating. I am sure there are many books that tell us not only how it is ment to be eaten but also how to eat in many different ways and manners. A side from this, each and everyone of us even though we were never told how, would absolutely manage to survive bringing food to our mouth; be it with a spoon, fork or hands, in any case making sure we stay safe and sound in this world. For those more demanding minds we can also use the example of how although we do not read about it when little, we do follow a certain belief a certain way of doing things, have a special knowledge of who our mother is, or know how to react in this or that situation.
Having these examples in mind we can now point out what is so magnificent about this. In both examples we are facing situations that we have to overcome throughout our life, notice that we say have to , which means that we are forced to go through them at a certain point. This pushing us is what at a certain point will make us go towards one way or towards the other without having time for thinking, reading or asking anybody.

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