Last Sunday, it took another herald to affirm in the pulpit that Filipinos in general aren't much of a reader, but it will take another person's perspective to contest or buy this statement. As for me, I couldn't agree more. I've seen a lot of people don't find this hobby interesting at all; who live up to such habit - I heard it through the grapevine - obsessed with myths instead of trying to discover the truth themselves.
If this was a research paper, then I am tasked to provide a thick description or legitimate facts to prove my stand ( I can do that), but it's not my ultimate purpose for this article. I respect every reason you have for being off the books, and it is your responsibility to tell the truth whether you read or not. Anyway, I'm just a blogger who also needs grace to read; not a bookworm yet.
"Please read, it's for your own sake." I reminded my students for countless times. But even then, I was just a clanging cymbal. In my years of staying at the center, only my adopted son absorbed the idea. And so he's the only one who truly gets those nuggets of wisdom - from reading books.
One can predict if a person really reads or not - for he or she is no one else but a "well informed" being you'll ever know - that's the secret - not like those noisy ones but empty cans. You don't have to be an extreme bibliophile to embrace this lifestyle, just read because it's for your own sake. After all, collecting books can be very expensive and space consuming.
Again, just read.
"For even brilliant people read!" This is my reading state of mind unless someone has a newer philosophy for me. Of course, I don't mean that reading is only for intellectual kind. I read too even if I struggled understanding.Who doesn't need wisdom from above, anyway?
From the time I started blogging until this very year, only few Filipino friends read my article or visit my blog at least. So surprised to know that many of my readers are from Europe, America, and other parts of Asia - not from the Philippines or very few.
How did I know?
My blog's statistic updates me every single second of the day - and it never lies. This is not encouraging actually, yet I've decided to keep writing whether readers be false (who said they're reading my blog, but not) or few.
I plug in my blog to Filipino friends old and new often enough aside from posting my articles on Facebook, but I learned not to expect much because it takes extra time to indulge reading; and many people don't just read at all.
Even if people don't read, they have the tendency to collect books, but only to display them or for termites to build their homes.Why collect them for nothing?
If you don't have time to read a book or don't want to read one at all, give them away for others to benefit. Don't you realize still that a book was meant for reading and not for displaying alone? Sorry for my arrogance, it's for your own sake. So, please read!
I may not be the most interesting person you have known or doesn't have that intelligence to fathom your standard, but the only thing I can assure you is my reading habit - I read a lot more than you think. And I read for my own sake - and so read for your own sake as well.
If you don't have time to read a book or don't want to read one at all, give them away for others to benefit. Don't you realize still that a book was meant for reading and not for displaying alone? Sorry for my arrogance, it's for your own sake. So, please read!
I may not be the most interesting person you have known or doesn't have that intelligence to fathom your standard, but the only thing I can assure you is my reading habit - I read a lot more than you think. And I read for my own sake - and so read for your own sake as well.
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