tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65592102024-09-04T13:15:35.689-07:00A place where people can share ideas and suggestions on how to make humanity a place of goodness. Kindness, compassion and good deeds are our watchwords.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6559210.post-1078184061684149792004-03-01T15:32:00.000-08:002012-01-11T09:28:40.019-08:00<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: small;">by Shaun Michael Samaroo</span></div> <div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> <br /></div> <div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: small;">LOVE for reading is a habit that serves us well in life. </span></div> <div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: small;">It is a joy and fun to sink one’s teeth into a good book and get into the meat of a great writer’s thoughts and insights about the human condition. </span></div> <div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: small;">Reading also opens up the mind to new worlds, to new experiences and concepts and lives. </span></div> <div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: small;">One who reads good books and magazines finds life to be rewarding, fun and enjoyable. Opening up the mind to new ideas and insights is such a beautiful thing. </span></div> <div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: small;">Yet how many people we know who just so dislike reading? It shocks me that people don’t crave to spend their time in books. </span></div> <div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: small;">Books offer so much. If we spend our time wisely, reading and absorbing the experiences and thoughts of great minds who were disciplined enough to write, we would live so much more fulfilling lives. </span></div> <div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: small;">Language and words are powerful tools. Humans turn to words and language to have relationships with each other. If it was not for langauge and words, the human race would be no better off than the animals, those dumb beasts. </span></div> <div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: small;">Humans are beings of indoctrination. We learn from the time we are born to imitate life, to imitate the cultural habits and norms of our parents and our society. </span></div> <div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: small;">Words carry two meanings. One is the dictionary meaning of the word - the denotational meaning. The other is the emotional or perception meaning of the word - the connotational meaning. </span></div> <div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: small;">The latter is how each and every human being sees the world. We respond to life’s experiences through our emotions. </span></div> <div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: small;">How we unconsciously define words in our mind’s eye dictates the kind of individual we become, the character we develop. </span></div> <div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: small;">So it is very important to develop a sense of love for words, for language, even if only to better define our own thinking. </span></div> <div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: small;">Clear thoughts lead to clear actions and clear motivations for the things we choose to do with our lives. </span></div> <div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: small;">The average human being embodies amazing potential. But many of us waste this latent creative energy in mediocre living because we are not clear on what our real role is in society. </span></div> <div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: small;">Reading causes us to have a clear and real sense of our place in the world. Reading equips us to have the knowledge and wisdom to live sound and fruitful lives. We need to develop a daily reading habit.&nbsp;</span></div> <div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.thequalpedlife.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Author's web portal </i></span></a></span></div> <div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><a href="mailto:beingshaun@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Author's email</i></span></a></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com