CAN YOU READ AND WRITE?
“Of course I can. Why on earth would you ask me such question? In fact, this is demeaning and abusive to my reputation owing to the fact that I’m a first class graduate of English from a prestigious university you wished you attended”.
These were the unending blabbing and insane response from someone who has never opened a book nor shared an intellectual comment.
Sometimes, we feel too proud to agree to our flaws and shortcomings and also get angry when people points our attention towards it. While anger is briefly energizing, it is ultimately exhausting. It clouds our egoistic judgement, leading us into one disaster after the other.
Early this year, I resolved to read more literatures and philosophical books in order to widen my intellectual horizon and sharpen my contextual comments. This has yielded in great measures than I imagined as I write more, ask more and speak more clearly.
Reading widely allows you to be in conversation with the great minds of history.
“What would Cicero think? How would Nietzche respond to that? Where would Wilde find joke in this? How would Da Vinci react to these allegations?”
It also helps to maintain a grounding in practicality. Many writers and thinkers develop a detachment-out-of habit or for-the -intellect, where in living becomes separated from the philosophy. This is especially true of philosophers and theologians. They merely introspect and think about the world in moribund nuances that are totally separates from reality and those seriously devoted to reading those writers can at times flow with the detached writer, consequently turning a basis for thought into rigid conclusions.
What’s stopping you from reading widely for as Emerson said, I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the food I’ve eaten; even so they’ve made me
