Do any kind of physical action, there will be physical effects. Similarly, when you think of anything, or feel anything, there will be consequences and effects. You are what you do and whether you accept it or not will be a case apart, for when we make our choices, we all are given 'a me factor ' by God. God in us, in the form of us. Doing what? For what? From God to God?
O.K., this essay is not going to be a philosophical one. Actually, I am writing about books.
Some songs make me miss those events that never happened in my life. Or it may be a comment we come across in the comment sections, down below some of the uploaded special songs on YouTube. And we knew what they meant, instantly, for we felt the same, listening to that song. or ever felt so listening to some others.
And one thing strange about music is when you happen to listen to the same song, or hear it coming out from somewhere, you will be remembering the events happening when you first fell in love with the song(s). And sometimes, when similar events are about to happen in your life, that song could be heard automatically playing in your head just before that. Yes, there is a DJ in our head and heart. According to my personal experiences, that is how music works.
Books are a little different from music, but not by much. Read any kind of religious book and you will be feeling the understandings and serenity coming out from the book and seeping into you, plus you may feel the atmosphere of very pure seriousness and holiness. When you read history books, you will become a more understanding and serious person. Read books of fiction and you in those glasses will gradually be looking like somebody that is the product of your fiction reading and feeling those stories. And when you speak, you will be sounding like the genre of the books you are reading.
I used to have a friend, during my university years, nicknamed, 'The Alien', for he talked to friends about 'UFOS' and "Aliens'' all the time in our junior years. His books were... ah, please make a guess.
The very basic thing to understand is, it does not matter whether you are a reading “classics” or “history”, or “science fiction”, or are addicted to horror novels, or anything else, what books will give you will be the same; 'the knowledge, understandings, and practical thinking of fellow humans. And above all, the feeling of you living in the same atmosphere of literature; so pure, so appealing, so nice, so beautiful, and so chastely unique.
Here, please don't include erotica. (Everything has exceptions! )
And also, like music, at times, the unique atmosphere will come back again to you, while you are walking or driving or cooking or doing something. Yes, inside us all, there is a good reader who sometimes will be reading books or passages or poems out to us.
So, when you read books and become a book person, you will start to feel the book powers mentioned above.
Phoe Wa
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