Viewing reading as a conversation changed my life
Reading a book is like choosing to have a conversation. Choosing to have your thoughts interact with the thoughts of another human being.
Read like you’re conversing with the author to unravel the full spectrum of benefits from the reading experiences.
Just like any conversation, some are more difficult than others, some more enjoyable than others, and some more life-changing than others.
Just like any conversation, sometimes you’re more ready to take it on than at other times.
Just like any conversation, certain books will hit differently at different moments in life. You get different messages from a story like “The Little Prince” at different stages in life.
Our thoughts interact with the material differently depending on our previous experiences and it’s so beautiful
One conversation can completely change a life and one book can do the same, it all comes down to the collection of ideas that are being shared, blended, and transferred.
The author’s thoughts and beliefs get mixed in, filtered, and either ingested or disregarded by the reader’s conscious critic and unconscious observer.
Just like any conversation, the back and forth of ideas is what makes the magic.
Those deep conversations, books are basically those deep conversations we all tend to enjoy the most, condensed into the text we can read over a few minutes, hours, or days.
At our own pace.
This logic means to a degree that choosing to not read is equivalent to choosing to not speak to people who lived long before you or are outside your immediate circle.
About the Creator
Kevin Kamis
Creator of verbal mind games and whimsy art pieces.
New York based Congolese writer.
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