Reading is the weapon that I hold in the face of the difficulties that I face in life, it is the savior of thinking and pain .. So why do you read?
I was in my second year of college when I grabbed my first book. The book was by Agatha Christie, The Murder of Sir Roger Ackroyd. When I finished the novel in my hand, I was like someone discovering the secrets of the universe.
After that I started the novel “The Dust of Diamonds”, which I liked a lot at the time, so what I had was other than that I put myself in the place of the man who installed himself as ruler, god and punisher of society, he established the balance of justice - as he imagined - instead of the rampant injustice in society. I liked the idea and tried to discuss it with those around me, so I discovered that more than three people out of ten support the main character, and that if they were in their hands, they would judge people and establish justice from their point of view .. then they will.
From here, I started looking for gatherings and forums that gather readers on the Internet or even at the university. I was like someone who curses around him everywhere in order to find what he wants. When I began to get to know my peer readers or on the Internet, many prospects opened before me that I would never have dreamed of thinking about or even trying to search and navigate.
Over time, I realized that reading was not a finite thing with which we could comprehend or comprehend its consequences. Salim Bey told me: “You read too much… you are crazy!” I told him: Reading is a cheap kind of drug for me. I do nothing with it but pass out.
In the past - picture this - they were reading in order to gain awareness!
Ahmed Khaled Tawfiq from the novel "Utopia"
So .. why do we read?
If you think about why we read? We'll think what reading has done for us! And this one more time. As you can see, dear reader, for you and I as readers, we cannot limit the reading to lines or articles. Rather, if we look carefully, we will realize that the topic differs from one person to another, but in the end we agree that it changes life, thinking and viewpoints, so we become quieter on the outside, and we are all colors And indoor hustle.
We read because
We inhabit other bodies
You are not that person whose world has been completely destroyed and the waters flooded the entire planet until the savage of man came to work a city monopolizing the survivors to build a city in which people have steps on the shoulders of survivors of the sinking of the earth .. is not it? This is the novel "The Enormous Tide" by Alexander Hill Key. You start to realize exactly what I mean.
To see another example, you will not open the window of your house in your village to find someone who flies a carpet next to the window, and sells it to you as an overseas wonder! Or even to see your father's ghost under the tree as he died before! Or you will not decipher the papers of an old man who wrote the history of you and the entire generations of your family! That was the Marquis of One Hundred Years of Solitude.
You are silencing the bodies and souls of characters that you will not be in worlds that will not exist, and if you do exist, you will not be a part of them, or you will be a part, but only in the book, only with you in your home clothes holding two bookshelves with an orange and a cup of cold tea beside you because you forgot to drink it in the midst of your battle with ants And he's eating your little one while you're finally decoding the Hundred Years!
Experiences that make us understand what is around us
On personal experience, before reading, I would not have appreciated anyone who had a deficiency, bad behavior, or even acted against the norm of the person. I used to justify myself well, forgetting that people are like me, then one day I read that there are those who were bullied when she was young, so her mind tries to protect her by being prominent and violent with everyone who tries to reduce her. Now she is in her hand to preserve her mind and try to reverse the negative influence So it will not allow anyone to put it less than it deserves.
In the past, I would have said this character was violent and motivated for no reason.
My eyes can fall on a weak, broken boy who cannot fight for what he wants! Then he issued judgments here and there as if someone installed a ruler on the globe, then in psychology books I read that this can be due to controlling the decisions of this man while they are young, or even to be pressured by means that he used to not abandon them, so he grows up to become with such fragility and fall to the bottom of the bottom until If he was successful in an aspect of life, he would always be under someone else's rule and his entire life was not for him.
Thus, we become observers, analysts, thinkers beyond the action, the sign and the situation, we search, read, and delve into ... we try to accept, understand, assimilate, observe ... Readers are good observers and excellent listeners..Just come before them and live your life to find someone who smiles at you for no reason remembering that you are human And one day, a circle may revolve around you that we have read or happened to us before .. In the end we are the ones who apply the philosophy that fills books but .. silently.
Because we are always hungry for more
Now when I go back to what I read five years ago, and I see it dazzling, a smile betrays pride mixed with a little hope, reading is the only thing that develops whether we like it or not, it develops with time, with the books that lie before us by chance or even with a bit of imagination or a bit of debates taking place inside The mind.
Our development becomes very noticeable with time, a cumulative development, at first you will not like reflections on the novel and you will not like the calm atmosphere that describes the room or an inner feeling, then with time you will become a rejection of a certain type that you adore and read with all its iterations. You will not be completely averse to being frank, but you will realize that the department of favorites is like the gods that are made from a stick .. They must be destroyed or eaten without sanctification. You will learn that sanctification at the beginning of your readings is natural, but after that it becomes a law that can change.
Example: In the past, I was afraid to read to Naguib Mahfouz, and today he is the only one I turn to if I suffer from boredom reading or feel that my books do not contain what I contain at a certain time, so I go to him as a compassionate father who can hear me and translate what I cannot ask loudly.
- joy
This is a personal reason for whoever wrote this article, and one of the first and foremost reasons for it. It was a wonderful adventure, but more than wonderful, to read the book “The Consolations of Philosophy” to realize that these philosophers are transforming their lives and their suffering into directions that we come after them only to try to reach what they have reached or at least try to follow the path of their lives. Philosophies are usually the march of people who have been exposed to events They emerged from it with frank views and points of view that suit their lives and their mentalities.
One of the biggest challenges three years ago was grabbing the book "The First Adventure of the Mind" to start a journey through myths and history with "Firas Al-Sawah". It was a challenge. I even stopped in the middle of the book several times to catch my breath.
There is the “Book of Transportation” in which I read a very short biography of what happened to Muhammad Fawzi, crying in front of many of the passengers beside me on the metro, they did not understand why I was smiling and then I turned the page and suddenly became crying.
The fun is in navigating the various and different pages, that you discuss the book with three people to discover that the book has (1000) angles and you realize only one. The book is a summary of another mind that has faced different challenges, lived different lives and experiences, as well as with a different spirit and heart .. He tries to write it down on papers in an elegant and tidy way, so that you come with all your experiences and the imprint of your mind and everything that you have gone through to translate it according to your own fingerprint, and later you realize that you are You did not read it as your friend, but rather the writer did not mean all these other angles .. See where the fun is? It is a game that opens your mind to multi-angle worlds, and you will not be able to get out of it. It is like a mirror house .. See a way out? No, but you don't want to get out.
- Let's write
Do you know what the writer is devoted to throughout his life? reading. It is his refuge, mentor, guide, developer, tool, and tool. It's everything to him, the teacher, the test, the experience, the science. Reading is what comes out of us, especially if you are able to carry a pen and write.
We write because reading makes us able to express, able to experience many, many things that a person who does not try to open his awareness to other worlds and minds will not be able to experience.
We write our experiences, our imaginations, the things that we like to discuss, the research in which we enjoy being tired, and those things that go in our minds in some way come out on the papers as a means of awareness, education, or even enjoyment for others, but they come out of the writer because they only should come out .. they come out as a refuge, as a method To express the incomprehensible self, for a way of love or a way to live .. Yes, reading and writing are ways to earn a living and also a livelihood.
“It has been realized for me that I am not naturally fit to take any exam, because the exam wants me the opposite of what I want from reading. I read to digest what I read, that is, I analyze my reading materials into elements that flow into my conscious entity .. As for the exam, he wants me to keep this for him. Sorted solids, "
Tawfiq Al-Hakim
Zahra Al- Omar
We readers know that it is an inevitable refuge from that dreaded question, why do you read? We will never find the answer that will convince those in front of us that the defect is not in the answer, but rather in the strangeness of the question, yes, it is a question that has many answers and those answers have many different faces and expressions, and even after the answer, the answers can be multiple for the same person, and it may not be The reason is compelling, and therefore we will fall into that vicious circle until it reads, and we understand as we understand that it is a question like a buoy in a fire .. It will not prevent you from drowning, but it will not save you from the fire .. So when is the last time someone passed you by means of transportation or at home or work or even between you And among your friends to ask you this big question?
