When it comes to reading I don't have common disciplined habits. I read books whenever I feel like reading without having a strict discipline. Maybe this has hampered me in upgrading my reading habits but I'm reading, at least keeping alive what I love. Sadly I can hardly finish a book in a year and I'm feeling myself that reading habit is slowly fading from me. Of course I read many interesting articles online. Still I'm not satisfied by the fact that I'm forgetting my old habits.
When I was in high school I read almost 30 books and that was, maybe, a time when I was instilling a habit of reading? After that I couldn't race the pace of my habits of reading though I kept it alive even to these days despite my tight schedule.
Tight schedule? Yes since I've to go on with my prayer and other monastic related chores.
Even as a child I had a habit of reading stories although I was academically poor in almost every subjects. By the time I was in my fifth grade I'd done with the stories in English and Dzongkha text book of seventh grade. Before reading actual story I would directly read 'about authors' that would be given at the end after that I may go with the story otherwise I may not. I don't know why but I still have that habit with me.
Dawa-the story of a stray dog in Bhutan is the first novel for many, including myself, followed by Giver written by ace Kunzang Choden and Lois Lowry simultaneously. For some it is only two novels throughout their live. We owe Education system for this.
As far as I remember Man, Woman and Child by Erich Segal is my first novel beside every Bhutanese students so far read novel. After having picked that book from the library I was a frequent visitor in the library. My friend and I would be going with any books though some books were too complicated to understand. Some of the books I read are still absurd, I completed just for the sake of reading. Maybe completion of books from first to last has helped me familiarise with different technique of reading and also in the selection of books thereafter.
Of all the things reading is concerned, the change it has brought in me is something I'll cherish throughout my life. Book reading is truly fascinating habit with incalculable value. People in the past have read and became wise and this is what we must do in order to gain knowledge. I read books because of the two great reasons:
Friendship plays important role in bonding world outside us. I've also noticed that human hardly stay without friends. Even I need a good companion. It is in book I find my best friend. I laugh, cry, smile and talk with book. Humans are fair-weather friend and foul-weather friend, book is not. It doesn't talk yet conveys deep messages.
Facts: Once I was traveling from Gelephu to Tsirang by bus. I was alone: alone without a friend. You know what I did? I simply took my Nokia XL and sliped into my PDF folder to check if there was an intriguing story. Yeah there was many but I chose a book written by one of the Buddhist scholar, it was of course Buddhist philosophy, as it also had minimum pages compared to others (I forgot title and author.) In two and half hours journey I was enjoying myself at the full energy. Such a profound philosophy Buddhism has, I thought that time after reading. Frankly I didn't notice how I reached my destiny and what went inside bus. Such is the power of book.
Learning mostly takes incessantly during reading. While reading you're not only reading the characters but also what kind of messages do the writers want to convey. Indeed you're learning authors opinion on a particular subjects and you as a reader has every right to put view. This is exchange of knowledge. My knowledge is very low in many fields and reading is the only relevant source I can rely. Today I know about far away places which I may not visit in my next lives also, I know about tiniest creatures, I know about legends that revolutionized the living style, I know how to love beings, it is reading habits that has filled something valuable in my empty brain.
I'm listing some of the books I enjoyed and they are not ranked serially.
1. The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
2. Think And Grow Rich
3. Siddhartha
4. Peace Is Every Step
5. The Heart of Understanding
6. Man, Woman And Child
7. The Story of My Experiments With Truth
8. Unlimited Power
9. You Can Win
10. The Guide
11. Buddhism and Science: A Guide For The Perplexed
12. Alice In The Wonderland
13. Freedom Is Not Free
14. Things Fall Apart
15. Sapiens (reading......)
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| I read this when I was in my 11th grade, 2009. Image source: Goodreads. |
Of all the things reading is concerned, the change it has brought in me is something I'll cherish throughout my life. Book reading is truly fascinating habit with incalculable value. People in the past have read and became wise and this is what we must do in order to gain knowledge. I read books because of the two great reasons:
Friendship plays important role in bonding world outside us. I've also noticed that human hardly stay without friends. Even I need a good companion. It is in book I find my best friend. I laugh, cry, smile and talk with book. Humans are fair-weather friend and foul-weather friend, book is not. It doesn't talk yet conveys deep messages.
Facts: Once I was traveling from Gelephu to Tsirang by bus. I was alone: alone without a friend. You know what I did? I simply took my Nokia XL and sliped into my PDF folder to check if there was an intriguing story. Yeah there was many but I chose a book written by one of the Buddhist scholar, it was of course Buddhist philosophy, as it also had minimum pages compared to others (I forgot title and author.) In two and half hours journey I was enjoying myself at the full energy. Such a profound philosophy Buddhism has, I thought that time after reading. Frankly I didn't notice how I reached my destiny and what went inside bus. Such is the power of book.
Learning mostly takes incessantly during reading. While reading you're not only reading the characters but also what kind of messages do the writers want to convey. Indeed you're learning authors opinion on a particular subjects and you as a reader has every right to put view. This is exchange of knowledge. My knowledge is very low in many fields and reading is the only relevant source I can rely. Today I know about far away places which I may not visit in my next lives also, I know about tiniest creatures, I know about legends that revolutionized the living style, I know how to love beings, it is reading habits that has filled something valuable in my empty brain.
I'm listing some of the books I enjoyed and they are not ranked serially.
1. The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
2. Think And Grow Rich
3. Siddhartha
4. Peace Is Every Step
5. The Heart of Understanding
6. Man, Woman And Child
7. The Story of My Experiments With Truth
8. Unlimited Power
9. You Can Win
10. The Guide
11. Buddhism and Science: A Guide For The Perplexed
12. Alice In The Wonderland
13. Freedom Is Not Free
14. Things Fall Apart
15. Sapiens (reading......)
I do not remember who inspired me to read stories but I do feel that it was my mother who played a silent role with her bed time stories. Only later I was to know that some of her stories were corrupted but some bed time stories she narrated are not in any of the folk tales I read so far. Maybe those stories have vanished? I wish to rewrite but I'm not sure if my mother can recollect 'coz it is more than two decades that she narrated to any of us. It is a social changes. Technology easily lured children to embrace new gadgets. Thank God! My generation got to listen those bed time stories.
In today's world it is going to be a challenge for parents to make their children learn through reading. Many of us are lazy to flip even a page. We don't want to invest even few minutes on reading but long hours with cell phone is okay. Am I investing into internet productively? I'm not sure but I try. I remind that I should not pay service providers to spoil me.
I'll keep reading although I'm slow and steady.
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