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Books and Lonely Souls

Books and Lonely Souls

 

When all the tiresome activities of a working day have been done, duties have been fulfilled, family gatherings have gone over, joyful moments of sports and entertainment have also ended, colors of the evening have gotten darker and on the bed, sleep is still reluctant to take you into her lap, then there is no better option for a tasteful person than to open up any interesting book.

A book switches a person from this world to another world; a world that is more fascinating, adventurous, colorful, and wonderful. The world of books helps you to leave the trivial worries and stresses behind and venture for a new level of excitement, deep tranquility, and soul-thriving joy.

The definition of a good friend is, “in whose company, fatigue leaves the mind and sorrow the heart”. In that respect, a book serves even better than that. Other friends do sometimes give you little disappointments, but a book never cheats on you, it always fulfills its promise of peace and happiness.

Everyone needs a soul-refreshing hobby after going through the soul-crushing routines of daily life. Such hobbies play a very healthy role in our physical and intellectual growth. Different people try different hobbies in their leisure time; some opt for sports and jogging in the open air, and some prefer sitting before their tv sets. However, picking up a book to read always has some additional advantages. Besides entertaining your mind, it gives you useful information and invaluable insights that you have no other way to get.

The storybooks present us with many new realms of ideas and fantasies. The history books take us back to ancient civilizations like a time machine. The literary books polish our linguistic tools. The encyclopedia books surprise us with global information in a summarized form. Horror novels give us a chance to enjoy our own fears. Spy books play with our curiosity. The poetry books offer a soft prey for our memorizing skills. Religious books fill our souls with meaning and purpose.

Books are the major source of knowledge, the knowledge that is said to be the “third eye” of homo sapiens. If there was no book, humans would have been the prisoners of their immediate and local environment. Books tell us how our previous generation thought about life and its challenges and what mistakes they made in coping with different social and political issues. If books had not preserved the history of human thought, then we would have to start from the beginning in every era and our social evolution would have been going in a circle.

Books furnish your thoughts and shield against negativity. If you don’t have a good human company, then books offer a very precious alternate. Book-reading is like having an offline company of the author. 

Books not only guide us about good and evil but also motivate us to have a good character rather than a bad one. Books are no doubt the best friend of humans. But as there are good friends as well as bad ones, books are too found in good and bad categories. Like it’s an art to figure out a good friend, books are also needed to be selected carefully.

 

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