The modern world has to much to offer. Great laptops, smarter phones, big houses, fancy cars. Connectivity and Technology are the partners that make us as people crave for new things. The world is more material than it is a normal world. And yet, sometimes there are things that seem bigger, greater, wiser than all of it.
Books. The simple world of the written word. There is literally nothing better in the world than cosying up to a book by the fireplace on a cold winter day. A cup of tea to add to it helps.
The other day, I went to a book fair where I saw books and books and books. The entire room was piled high with an unlimited range of books - novels by well known and not so well known authors, cook books, children's books, comic books...so many books. It took me a long time to choose just a couple to buy (although I'd have loved to own the entire lot). I chose 4 and came home with a delighted sense of eagerness, waiting to start my books.
According to me, nothing looks as good against a wall than multiple wooden book shelves, filled with books. No painting, no picture frame, no wall decor will ever look as pretty to me than books against a wall shelf.
If someone paid me, just enough to afford 3 square meals a day and the basics of life, I'd be happy enough to stay home all day and just read. Then just walk in the park. And maybe sit by the sea.
There is so much out there in the world. But nothing can ever, ever give as much joy as the simple things in life.
When you look back at your life, what will you remember?
Will you remember the latest iphone that won't be the latest forever.
Or that one walk in the park where you were one with the morning dew.
Or that one book that touched your heart and changed your life.
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