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Ink and Paper, Words and Books :: Writing Area :: Non-Fiction :: Why is it important to read? Author Topic: Why is it important to read? (Read 232 times) Random Writings Junior Member member is offline Books never lose there charm, despite how many years they may see.... Joined: Aug 2007 Posts: 65 Location: In my Happy Place Why is it important to read? « Thread Started on Nov 11, 2007, 12:44am » This isn't an event, but it is an essay. It's a rough draft, but any feedback is important. Geronimo. Why is it so important to read? Why is reading such an important thing? I mean, if you're looking for a good story, or to teach an important moral, why not just flip through a few channels? Honestly, it seems to be a dying art, reading. Why should its passing be mourned? There are already people who don't read unless it is some sort of assigned work. Why shouldn't we give it all up and be content with the television. Well, the answer is, if reading books was no longer required, and people turned to the television to teach them about life, than we would lose something golden. We would lose our ideas. Ideas are truly the best reason to pick up a book. That's what those beautiful pages fill us with. Ideas. Sure, some of those ideas and morals we don't agree with, but at least they make a person think. That's the beauty of it. Ideas don't force themselves down anyones throat, till they cannot be tolerated anymore. They softly dance through the mind, trying to lead it down a certain road, without forcing it to go a place it doesn't truly want to go. They give a person a choice. When was the last time a television show truly did that for a person? Don't get me wrong, I like a well done movie or book as well as the next person, but it can't compare with the sort of thoughts a book can give. It's a distraction from the pain of life, like morphine masks the pain. Yet when it's all said and done, the pain is still there. Books on the other hand, they do so much more for a person. They take the pain away, but they also help to heal it like any good medication would. It both masks and heals, rather than just one. The part of a book that heals is when it truly makes a person think. When those rusty wheels of the mind begin to turn, it gives way to something wonderful. When a book is read, one looks through the world with someone else's eyes. It gives a prospective into someone else's world, into their thoughts and dreams. TV series can try to do that, but often they are to rushed or to concerned with the drama and violence levels to truly care. It's not the same with books. They know they can take their time, and truly show what another person is like. That's why it brings me pain to hear people scoff at reading books. They laugh at the thought of picking up a book for fun and letting its simple pleasures wash over them. It truly is sad, because they are denying themselves such a wonderful thing. They are denying themselves the chance to develop their own ideas, their own morals, and a prospective that TV will fail to provide them. It is sad, and it is even sadder to think that one day the ideas that books bring will be lost to us all. Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. ~Toni Morrison I plan to write some short stories, a few bad poems and to re-write a series or two. What do you plan on doing? tobymacfreak New Member member is offline Joined: Aug 2007 Posts: 43 Re: Why is it important to read? « Reply #1 on Nov 12, 2007, 1:07pm » Quote: This isn't an event, but it is an essay. It's a rough draft, but any feedback is important. Geronimo. Why is it so important to read? Why is reading such an important thing? I mean, if you're looking for a good story, or to teach an important moral, why not just flip through a few channels? Honestly, it seems to be a dying art, reading. Why should its passing be mourned? There are already people who don't read unless it is some sort of assigned work. Why shouldn't we give it all up and be content with the television. Well, the answer is, if reading books was no longer required, and people turned to the television to teach them about life, than we would lose something golden. We would lose our ideas. Ideas are truly the best reason to pick up a book. That's what those beautiful pages fill us with. Ideas. Sure, some of those ideas and morals we don't agree with, but at least they make a person think. That's the beauty of it. Ideas don't force themselves down anyones throat, till they cannot be tolerated anymore. They softly dance through the mind, trying to lead it down a certain road, without forcing it to go a place it doesn't truly want to go. They give a person a choice. When was the last time a television show truly did that for a person? Don't get me wrong, I like a well done movie or book as well as the next person, but it can't compare with the sort of thoughts a book can give. It's a distraction from the pain of life, like morphine masks the pain. Yet when it's all said and done, the pain is still there. Books on the other hand, they do so much more for a person. They take the pain away, but they also help to heal it like any good medication would. It both masks and heals, rather than just one. The part of a book that heals is when it truly makes a person think. When those rusty wheels of the mind begin to turn, it gives way to something wonderful. When a book is read, one looks through the world with someone else's eyes. It gives a prospective into someone else's world, into their thoughts and dreams. TV series can try to do that, but often they are to rushed or to concerned with the drama and violence levels to truly care. It's not the same with books. They know they can take their time, and truly show what another person is like. That's why it brings me pain to hear people scoff at reading books. They laugh at the thought of picking up a book for fun and letting its simple pleasures wash over them. It truly is sad, because they are denying themselves such a wonderful thing. They are denying themselves the chance to develop their own ideas, their own morals, and a prospective that TV will fail to provide them. It is sad, and it is even sadder to think that one day the ideas that books bring will be lost to us all. Wow thats a great paper, and sadly true. Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Random Writings Junior Member member is offline Books never lose there charm, despite how many years they may see.... Joined: Aug 2007 Posts: 65 Location: In my Happy Place Re: Why is it important to read? « Reply #2 on Nov 12, 2007, 7:35pm » Thanks, though i wish my facts were wrong. Hopefully they are.... Did you notice anything wrong with it? Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. ~Toni Morrison I plan to write some short stories, a few bad poems and to re-write a series or two. What do you plan on doing? 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