~ Books, Friend for Lifetime… ~

Books become treasures of wisdom and you can learn so much from them. They can spear your thinking and actions – you learn so much form the world of books. You cannot meet everyone on this planet but can go through life histories of people who made themselves big with their attitude of living and the impediments they conquered.

Remember, many people in this world have suffered and overcame grave miseries with their power of thought and the commitment they made to themselves – They have all jotted their experiences into words,  an assembly of which you can call a “Book”

Internally, we all are spiritual being on a human journey to collect and face circumstances in this material world. Since time immemorial, humans have been recording their journey and life’s ups and downs in some form or other. In modern times, this practice has taken shape in forms of collective methodology of a library.

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.” – Rene Descartes.

Books can be our love of life; we can get so much to learn from interpreting them. My journey as a reader started from reading newspapers in the morning and have now become a rigorous habit of going through varied subjects of my interest. I never knew that of decades of reading, one day I would be filled with brim and would then start to put my thoughts in words and what I have learned from my best friend of a lifetime -Books!

Once speaking at Columbia University, the Oracle of Omaha and the Boss of Berkshire Hathaway – Mr. warren Buffet advised students to ‘Read 500 pages per day! as this is how knowledge builds up, like compound interest!” – The seems to be a true spirited saying from one of the foremost investors of 20-21^st Century who himself is an avid reader.

I always have been lookout for zillion words of wisdom, of human experiences and failures and again human victory, all typed or scribbled through human consciousness with a view to be listened , spoken out or read and which can then become a life lesson and not repeated in human history.

Great men of wisdom and valor have gone through many trying times , it is only when one gets to the podium of success, that one just notices him, but in the backdrop his mounted failures and efforts always goes unnoticed – it is this journey of trials that books put light on – it gives the know-how of how one struggled to reach the pinnacle of success  though we all forget the journey but only spot the limelight.

Books are an earnest expression of life lived with its ups and downs, some beautiful moments shared during one’s lifetime and also as a view of the person one is – whilst you get immersed in the sea of thoughts when you are going through a good book, you form a noticeable story with a situation that the protagonist might be going through. 

Books  gives you the ‘food for thought’ for your mind to chew on the information so receive and form its own stories – a parallel thinking thus develops which defines your character and interpretation of life’s situations – your mind becomes a storehouse of what you have read and it cleverly brings forth that very situation you fall in – you get the prudence to act and behave in a particular fashion to tackle the situation with confidence.

Finally, books shower you with everyday presence and make you smile, cry and day dream – you relate yourself to a particular situation whilst you go through a story and soon gets absorbed in it – that is what your ‘Best Friend’ can do whilst you sit alone and talk to him!