Reading sets you free, gives you security and provides you with armor to fight against adversity.
"Books are the bees that carry pollen from one intelligence to another." Lowell
Some people worry because they do not have a career, and they think that they will not be able to be someone important in life because of this lack, but I am going to tell you the opposite: it is not a necessary and sufficient condition to pursue a career to succeed in life, only it is enough that you have the proper instruction to function in society. The best way to have such instruction within any area of knowledge is by reading. Reading gives you updated information on what is happening in the world, currents of thought, new technologies, and so on. Reading has a dual purpose; on the one hand it instructs you and on the other, reading seems like a very good way to relax. Entering the mind and the experience of another human being that perhaps for many years has ceased to exist is an unforgettable experience.
Prisoner in your world
The man who has not had the habit of reading is a prisoner in his immediate world in terms of time and space. His life falls into an established routine; he limits himself to contact and conversation with some friends and acquaintances, and he does not see more of what is going on around him. There is no escape from this prison. The moment you pick up a book you enter a different world, and if it is a good book, you immediately come into contact with one of the best storytellers in the world. This narrator guides you and leads you to a different nation or to a different time, and tells you about situations that you would never have imagined, or invites you to discuss some special topic or an aspect of life that you know nothing about.
To live a couple of hours in another world and take our thoughts away from the demands of the immediate present, it is a privilege that those who are imprisoned in corporal prisons must envy.
A short space
Reading is a habit, and as such it is necessary to form it. Some people might say that they don't find satisfaction in reading; who get tired from the moment they see the length of a text or a book. Others will say that this or that topic does not interest them. Some may say, "I start out with enthusiasm, but after ten or twelve lines I get tired and quit." I answer everyone that reading is a habit that arises from a simple act of choice. A bad habit can be substituted for a good habit. Why don't you get into the habit of allowing yourself a short five-minute period a day to read?
If you don't have the habit of reading, my best recommendation is that you commit to working on it. There is an extensive source of publications such as books, manuals, technical literature, newspapers and magazines, to expand your own knowledge and cultural heritage. Reading is absolute power. When you open a book, you open a world full of knowledge, fun and enthusiasm. Join these scientists, poets and heroes on an exciting journey to visit other wonderful and mysterious worlds, encompassed within the written word.
Supply and demand
Have you ever been interested in a book or a publication? What was it that caught your attention? Title? The illustrations? The topic? The cover? Everything seems to coincide with the subjectivity with which you grew up. You have asked yourself questions, you have analyzed everything around you. And there begins a kind of supply and demand between what you need or want to know and what they want to let you know. You should choose, because you need to have a correct experience of things. In a way, you need to believe in something. Believe not only in a spiritual sense, but in accepting (or not) concepts, facts and realities of other men. This is the moment, then, to take a book, to become familiar with what has been written. Everything that comes to your fingertips read it, analyze it, study it. Then extract the good. «Sure, (you will tell me) find the right thing, the right thing,the positive, the precise, is not always easy, it can even be subjective ». But I answer that you will not be able to differentiate the good from the bad of this or that author, if you do not read his thought first. After the reading, the analysis and criticism will come.
The habit of reading will deepen in you until you reach extraordinary moments. If a friend or colleague asked you: When to read? answer him: read when you need to know and believe. Make time for that. Where to read? Where you feel comfortable. How to read? With the desire and willingness to learn. Why read? To know the world and its ideas. What to read Everything you can and that is of benefit to you.
