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What is reading for? Reading for reading's sake?

Reading in order to let us see the world is to see themselves

By gaozhenPublished 2 years ago 4 min read
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The question is the same as what people live for. There seemed to be no answer at last, but an answer had to be given.

But reading is actually a part of why people live.

People go through life from birth to death without accidents. There may be accidents, but they never see them.

From birth to death, people come to the world and bid farewell to the world. The difference is that the process of arrival and death is different. Birth and death, some live with glory, others die with greatness. The glory of life has to do with the family you were born into, but the greatness of death has to do with the course of your life.

Some people seek fame, some seek profit, some just want to live a plain life. Some people are so in character, some are so in ability.

According to my personal understanding, people may be alive is three words, something.

Reading, or the means of acquiring knowledge, is the only way for most people to get what they want. Learn about history, learn about the way society works, choose what you want to live your life for, or just survive.

There is a saying that reading is to go to college, and going to college is to find a good job, and finding a good job is to live a better life. That is to say, for most people, the ultimate goal of reading is to lead a better life. It depends on your definition of a better life, and if you think farming at home and having enough food and clothes is a better life, you don't have to go to school.

But most people are born, probably for the first decade or two, with a certain degree of certainty. This is the best path of life that the society chooses automatically for us. Perhaps some people are born knowing it, but The Times are changing constantly. People are always learning, unchanged is still unchanged, and the gap between changes is still very big.

Humans are 99 percent genetically identical, but that one percent difference makes all the difference in the world. 95% of your destiny is predetermined, and your ability to change it is 5% or less. If a person's ending is certain, then life is much less interesting. If you know when you are going to die, is it better to be anxious about your own death, to indulge yourself before your death, or to work harder to achieve your dreams, or to give up marrying the person you love knowing that you will die tomorrow? Either way, I think life must be a lot less fun.

If you don't know why you're reading, keep reading. One day you'll know why you're reading, and it'll help you a lot. It won't just be when you stop reading and realize you still need to read and waste your time.

Finally, after people's material needs are satisfied, there will inevitably be higher spiritual needs. If the spirit is satisfied, the material is not so important.

Some read to get into college, some to amuse themselves, and some to get knowledge.

I believe that people who read for comfort, people who read occasionally to pass the time, and people who rarely read will not read a book carefully.

Life is to know nothing, this world is complicated, to human survival and reproduction, you need to generations of people leave their cognition, experience, perception, such as information recorded, for later generations can quickly understand the world, and then later generations according to their own thinking and to improve the previous record, later, productivity is greatly increased, many people all around the development process knowledge, So now we have the right to read any book we like in any field. It can be said that reading in the past is to quickly understand the world, promote the development of human society.

A lot of reading to acquire knowledge, improve knowledge, thinking, enhance understanding, meet the spiritual needs, these are the purpose of the reading, do not have a specific purpose, because everyone in this world is different, have their own reading purposes, each time the same person also reading purpose is different, our life is no standard answer, Everyone will find their own reading meaning.

Therefore, we are not reading for the sake of reading, there is no standard general answer can summarize the meaning of reading, because the world is complex and changeable.

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gaozhen

Husband, father, writer and. I love blogging about family, humanity, health and writing

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