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I have always had the habit of reading every day, even if I am busy with work, I still insist. For example, in the crowded and noisy environment of the subway, I took out a book and looked like a big bag on my shoulder. In the world of books, my mind has been relaxed.
For me, reading is simple. You don't need to greet anyone, say a guest, if you don't need it, just go straight, look at what you want to see, learn what you want to learn. You can open it at any time, talk to it, or you can turn it off at any time, separate or isolate it.
It is welcome to you when you go to see it. It will not stay when you leave. The door to knowledge is open to you at any time, but you can come and go freely without worrying too much.
I have heard such a saying: "Reading is better than 'invisible'. See the admired teacher or the famous scholar. You don't have to say hello beforehand, and you don't want to disturb the owner. If you open the book, you will break into the door and turn over a few pages. Just enter the room; and you can go often, always go, if you can't get it, you can leave it alone, or simply look for Gaoming and confront him."
If we say that we have too many places to be human, we can not only increase our knowledge, broaden our horizons, open our minds, but more importantly, we can do whatever we want, without restraint and without pressure.
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One reader said that she was working in a different place and her life was a bit hard. Every holiday, many colleagues go around, see new things, and appreciate the customs of foreign countries, and in order to save money, she has to live in a rented house. To this end, she always envied others and was frustrated by her embarrassment.
But later, she fell in love with reading. There is another vast world in the book. Even if you don't leave home, you can use other people's experiences, follow other people's perspectives, follow the footsteps of others, go to the mountains and wading, go to the river, and feel the "white mountains" in Li Baishi. Nandou, the screen of the nine stacks of Yunjin Zhang; to review the situation, to identify people to distinguish things, to understand the "Dream of Red Mansions" in the sentence "the world of things are all learned, the human body is the article."
In the book, she seems to have wings, can fly freely, cross in different time and space, to read history, anticipate the future. And all this, no need to pay much attention.
Maybe you especially want to go out and see poetry and distance, but now the time is not enough, the money is not enough, or there are many things that are pestering you, so that you can't get away. Then read more, this is the lowest cost travel. You can read through books, go to every corner of the world, and make different great men. Just open the book and open a new world at any time.
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A friend of mine has settled in a small county town, has been married and has children, and is accompanied by pots and pans all day long. Although the life of ordinary people has passed, the hobby of reading has never changed.
At first, many people cast a sneer, and some even thought she was wearing it. Because she has a lot of reading, it seems that she has not shown her special advantage.
But she knows that because of her reading, her vanity is less, she rarely squats or feels inferior because of comparison with others; because of reading, she has become lower-key, she used to like to show off, but now she rarely shows off Because of her reading, her mentality is more optimistic and her status is more positive. She used to be flustered and careless, and now she has learned to be generous and calm.
Even if it falls into tediousness, the same work has a different mood; the same family has a different sentiment; the same descendants have different qualities. Reading is a variable that makes it happen differently. In a sense, reading is to let us try to get rid of mediocrity.
Although life is simple, we are rich in our hearts; even if we are deep in the mud, we can still look up at the stars.
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After adulthood, we may have more utilitarianism in reading. When I first started reading, I also accumulated material for writing articles, but later I found myself more and more inseparable from books.
Here, I can feel pure happiness. Books are like my confidant and mentor. When I am confused, anxious, and overwhelmed, it gives me directions, can appease me, lead me, and inspire me.
Here, I can recognize and explore the world. If you can't see your eyes, you can read books; you can't measure your feet, you can read books; if you can't reach your body, you can read books. Even if we live in a square, we can still have a big realm and a big picture.
Here, we can see the heavens and the earth, see all beings, and see ourselves. Even if we are in the rice and oil, we will not be bound by the fine and ordinary life. We will become more and more open, unbiased and unsophisticated.
Why do we want to study? Probably just to meet a better self, become a person with temperature, understanding, and thinking.