Thursday 18 December 2014

The Fault In Our Shelves


Too Often we find ourselves drowning in a world that doesn't exist.In love with a person that breathes only on pages. Crying over a death that has never happened and never will. Waiting for two people who fight endlessly to fall in love when they've never had a thought of their own.
Too often we've loved the stories that we read more than our own. We forget most often that we are living in a real live tale, be it fairy or not. It is sad isn't it how it is most probable that all the books we've read , all the stories  always said that a heart was meant to share, Joys not found in things such as necklaces and rings but in love that’s always there, that’s the truth beyond compare. Well its actually quite amusing how all of this never happens in real life and we ACTUALLY thrive on all this fiction, me included!
Books have always, since the time of my birth ( or my 1st grade), been this major part of my life. I’d never been into lullabies but then its later on in life that I realized a lullaby doesn't necessarily have to be a song ,tune or a hum. It could be a book. There went not a day when I slept without a book under my pillow . I guess in some ways I  was my own tooth fairy, keeping things under my pillow.
Being a Miss Dashwood or a Tris Prior or an Everdeen or a Mrs Cullen or a Hazel Grace is what we expect and really want from ourselves. To be selfless , brave , funny and what not.
Too often we forget that we are   all that and more. Its the fact that we set the sky as our limit that is creating a problem. The kind of books we read defines what kind of a person we become , and this isn't a cliche point  (I hate the word cliche and am strictly against it, I’m going to have to dedicate an entire article on that) that I’m trying to make across here. We've been influenced by the media  and by people that we've limited ourselves to only certain kinds of books! The essence of reading a book is entirely poisoned.
All this crap we’re filling our heads with must cease and every book must be given a chance to be read. To me books are like humans. They have their rights and we have our duty towards them.
On a different note, but something on the same page we often accustom ourselves to certain kind of writing or we have this prior intuition that a writer is good only if he/she writes in a certain way which shuns any opportunity of a new style of writing to be accepted. The books we have in our shelves shouldn't be put in because of something someone said.
Reading is an occupation in itself.We’re passionate about and we love. And we read not because she said so.

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