Given the busy lives of this technological era of computers, everybody is so occupied with his/her chores that they hardly think about pursuing such hobby. Some find it excruciating to pick and read a book for hours and then grasp the real essence of the text written in some hundreds of pages. For such guys, Internet-technology, precisely book review sites and wikipedia pages have made a short way to get the gist of the book. But no matter how less the number of reader are, book reading is and always be en-joyful.
Book reading is one of the best habits. I never realized that for I have not find any reason yet to categorize this hobby as the best. As per my sense, every hobby possessed by a person is his/her best. A guy with an avocation of drawing or painting consider it as the best one, similar is the case with all others be it a singer, trekker, swimmer and reader. But perhaps reading is one such hobby which gives you a vast diversified knowledge even if you intend to pursue only a single hobby. A musician will learn only how to play a certain instrument. A sportsman will ace a particular sports. But in case of an avid reader, even though he is following his interest of reading, he is getting knowledge of various things. He reads about sports, music, mountaineering, science and what not. Perhaps this is the reason reading is placed at the top of all the hobbies.
I realised a reader inside me a few years ago when certain animal in me prodded to quell the fire of my belly to kill the other feline animal. It all started when I borrowed ‘The Alchemist’ from one of my friends. Even though one of my other friend gave me a small book ‘Who moved my cheese’ 5 years ago to read, I being lazy and lethargic towards reading, couldn’t even finish those 40 odd pages. And now this time the Alchemy of ‘Paulo Coelho’ worked so well that I read more than two books a month heydays following that.
Today also after vising a book-fair I have again cherished my love towards books. Yes, I accept that lack of time and some other priorities of rat race has impeded my pace of shifting piles of to-be-read book but even then my mind there at different stall was thinking of picking up every third book. I had chosen some 5-6 book to bring along with me but then my mind reminded my of certain 3-4 already unread books kept in my room. Last year, during my stay at Delhi, I have bought a huge number of books out of which I still have some unfinished ones. I am sure a few more days and then this animal will be free again to read, read and read....
May this reading habit prevails and disseminate for everyone so that there is no dearth of knowledge in this world.!!
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