Reading

Reading is absolutely the best way for me to think ouside the box.

For the past several months, I've been bathed in a chaotic mood, which kept confusing me about lots of life problems, such as what life is, how to be alone, what friends are for, and stuff. I know those kinds of questions are needed to be answered throughout one's life, even philosophers not going to answer them well. But it truly sucks to be jammed in such a intersection. Everytime I turn to my friends or my parents, it all ends up with a conclusion that is hard to take or even say. From time to time, as Randy Pausch said, "Most of what we learn, we learn indirectly." That's really true. It happens that you learn when it did happen. But, I'm just dying to know what people will react to. I'm not saying those who are just right beside me and easily to reach. People around the world have their own thoughts and logic, especially from a totally unknownable culture.

To think outside the box, at times, you just need some advice that is the other way round, maybe quite the contrary. As a result, I find out that reading is exactly the consultant that I've been looking for. Books which I seldom lived with are going to be the best friends during my summer break. I used to hate read because I'm alrealy tired with textbooks and school. In the past, I just wrongly connected reading to studying. In terms of studying, I have to swallow those concepts and digest them into something that people think it's right, while reading, which is a recreation for me now, is just a path that leads me to my own destination. I can depart from regular direction whenever I want to. And the most important of all, the landscape along the roads always surprise me unexpectedly, like the creaking of trees, ripples on the brooks. Those can be compared to the beatiful prose and rhythm sound of rhymes. This, the smooth reading flow of English, is exactly the right thing I live for.

Reading between the lines, what a magical power that humans have, is the most unbelievable ability that I'll see as, when we consider language to be the gifted talent that God gave us.

My struggle is being healed, definitely, maybe. Owing to discovering another world of reading, I, now, can be much happier than I was in the past several months.