Ode to our dusty shelves of wisdom
Our past is woven out of crises: we’ve been enslaved, hungry, ill, we lived through two world wars and countless other international conflicts! In a time of crisis, the people need one thing the most — hope. Literature is one of the pillars supporting hope. Hope for getting better in dire times, and hope for perfection in better times.
Ancestry loved writing, progeny loves reading!
Communication and amusement are vital for our sanity, they are like water. How do people get water?
Now you just open the tap and there it is! Like opening your browser and navigating to a page to get your communication or entertainment.
Before, there were the wells, drilled very deep below the ground and their buckets to get the water out.
We now get streamed and digested information just like water from our taps, while books are a raw source of one’s soul and experiences as pure and real as the water that comes out of the well.
Books that lived to be over a hundred years old are worth reading and kept alive.
The books become more valuable with time no matter how delusional and wrong the information written on them got proved with time. In one case, they helped us realise and snap out of the delusion, and in the opposite case, they bare knowledge to build further on the base of.
A lot of the ways people were thinking in the past reveals a large portion of what’s to befall future generations. The probable reason we are now pondering upon the origin of many unexplainable things is the lack of information left to us from the past.
How many homes have a priceless collection of books that the youth seem to have no time reading?
How many young people still drink water from the well?
My parents and grandparents have entire walls covered with bookshelves, and every genre you can possibly imagine is featured there! I love the looks of it, I love the smell of it. I would every now and then pick one of those yellowish-paged oldies in my hands to read next instead of my iPad and Kindle. But I try to be fair to the new authors as well as the old ones! And I hope someday my children will be too. As long as the message lives on, the author also does.
The wealth of books from authors born all over the world:
We should all tend to read a wider variety of cultural origins, described in books. Take one from each continent! Dive into their ways. Dive into their religion and values. There’s a shocking surprise of all the cultural similarities. When interpretation takes hit, it develops a single-origin into entirely separate cultures and traditions.
Dust is very tedious to clean off shelves. Be smart — don’t let them cover in the dust.
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