WHY DID WE READ?
- Because our parents put us in school, we would have started reading our school books. Can we think of any moments when we started reading books other than our regular school books. It may be like the children magazine or story books or drawing etc.
- In case if we would have read books other than school books, it could be because of our interest or just a time pass as there is nothing to do.
- Some other reasons.....
To become a Better Human Being everyday. Ignoring the human inside us and reading all the books in this world is of no use. We should become better Human Being day by day. If, after getting good education, job and wealth, I am not becoming a better human being (not just by body alone) day by day, then I prefer death than living in this world.
HOW TO DEVELOP THE READING HABIT?
- Try reading a small article daily say for 10 to mins initially. It may be from a Daily Newspaper or weekly magazine etc. Then after a week try for little more time and keep increasing your as you become love of reading
- Always have a book/e-book with you whenever possible. You may get some wait time somewhere so that you can make use of it.
- Find your interest. Read about that initially so that you will get to the habit of reading.
- It first depends on two things. IMPORTANT and PRIORITY.
- Is it IMPORTANT for me to read this book? Well you may answer YES
- But is it your Highest Priority to read this book now? Think.
- It depends on the books as well as who reads it. Take for example, a weekly magazine. I may skim through Cine news (No need for me analyze) but I may read Political News (I may analyze it to understand how current environment). There is an article about time management. Surely there could be at least one useful point which I could take from the article and try to implement it in my real life.
- If we are new to something, we may not know which book to pickup as there are so many available.
- We can do two things.
Frankly there is NO END. As we read more and understand, we understand that there is more that we don't know. We cannot master all things in the world but we can keep improving ourself as a human being and master (No one is a master. We have to keep improving. If we think we are the master, our learning stops there itself and our arrogance starts....) the things which are essential for our day to day living and also useful for the society.
Few Quotes:
வெள்ளத் தனைய மலர்நீட்டம் மாந்தர்தம்
உள்ளத் தனையது உயர்வு.
-----------------Thiruvalluvar, Tamil Poet
Translation :
With rising flood the rising lotus flower its stem unwinds;
The dignity of men is measured by their minds.
Explanation :
The stalks of water-flowers are proportionate to the depth of water; so is men's greatness proportionate to their minds.
Translation by Rev. Dr. G. U. Pope, Rev W. H. Drew,Rev. John Lazarus and Mr F. W. Ellis
"We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.----------------Swami Vivekananda"
"There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.................................David Starr Jordan"
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit....................Aristotle"
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us------------------------Oliver Wendell Holmes"
"There can be no friendship without confidence and no confidence without integrity..........................Samuel Johnson"
"Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least ---GOETHE"
