July 19, 2012

  • When reading, for say age 5-6, we read just for fun because it was, then 15-16 we read for the sake of exam. We either stopped reading at 17-18 because we get bored with books and notes+ plagiarism will do in University, or we make rash comments about certain books, thinking that by reading that particular book we mastered already that theory/school and give criticisms mindlessly just to prove we seem to know, excluding a small part of irrational/rational people who do read.

    It's not impossible, but just hard to convince that they did not pass through the stage of 17-18yrs old.

    The key perhaps is to understand that books are just one way to express opinions, which can be termed as " It is my observation that ..., do you think so?", and hence discussion continues. It is not very agreeable to use books to do some intellectual masturbating, and we see that almost every day. Like when you give a book's name or an author's name, you are really knowing all about it.

    A proper original position on reading is difficult in its simplicity.

    We all would somehow be enlightened by books we read, and we touch the first layer of the great questions: Humanitarianism vs Utilitarianism, Free vs Just, Capitalism vs Socialism (Communism is outdated already, very)

    So far it's not really about the questions I felt, more like, if you have to be Humanitarian for say, you must be Utilitarian outside, like how you act. People in college just claim that they are utilitarian but then they say the others are too shallow, which is not quite utilitarian. Or either they claim themselves humanitarian and bragged about all things with strong sentiments rather than judgments.

    Still not very sure about getting into another relationship, quite thinking these days. Because I am too serious about this? Besides I felt if my ex-girlfriend, Mikie Hara or Jessica Gomes asked me to be together, I might really ponder over that, which ponder itself is already a crime, although in reality all three of them are not possible at all.

    hmm, sit and wait for a little longer maybe?