Reading is always a must for it helps in making your
worldview or assists you in having a better experience of your immediate
surroundings.
Not
only this, it supplements to your higher mental faculties when you are someone
who is on the lookout to identify if your thoughts have been takers or if your thoughts are
going to find takers or if you need to stick to your line.
It
is true most of the reading is basically time-pass stuff. Vast availability of
the popular literature in almost of the vernacular and global languages tells
us this.
But
there are many who read to get enlightened; to get enriched. And thankfully,
there is no dearth of the quality literature for every bent of mind.
Such
reading is the best quality bet one can have in life. But it comes with an
inherent problem.
A
good quality literature is a powerful thought agent and most of the time, if
the reader is not cautious, ends up effecting disproportionate mixing into the
thoughts of the reader which he seldom realizes.
It
is not always good. It is not always bad. The shades are grey mostly where it
is almost futile to discuss and sift the good from the bad.
It
may have both, creating or manipulating, effects.
When
it aids the reader creatively and if the reader is into the creative business
of any sort, he ends up giving us a better creation.
When
the powerful thoughts of a quality literary work manipulate the thoughts of the
reader, it ends up in ruining the possibility of a genuine work, even if the
reader didn’t intend so. We miss the chance of a path-breaking creation thus
and it is a very common occurrence rarely felt.
For
the majority lot of the conscious readers, who are not into any creative flow,
these powerful thoughts end up in affecting the viewpoints, even replacing the
prevailing though-process of the reader. The revolutionary literature is its
best example.
It
is for both, good and bad; reasoned and unreasoned. This dual aspect is clear
enough to eliminate any point of debate on the issue.
Most
of us try to look to write a body of work initially. Some continue maintaining
it creating a work or two in their lifetime as the tribute to their existence.
Some
do it regularly. A reader of this class should always try to remain minimally
subjective while reading a quality literature.
He
needs to assimilate the work in context of his own thought process. He should
validate the thought-provoking elements of the work on the scale of his own
thoughts. He should see that he is not getting manipulated by the thoughts of
the work he is so fondly having.
To
think better, to write better, to create better, one needs to experience more
and more. And consistent reading of quality literature is as potent in it as
traveling far and wide or watching quality world cinema.
If
you can maintain a minimally subjective approach to your reading, you can
manage the participative experience to your advantage thus communicating with
the creator in you on clearer and novel thought-lines.
©/IPR: Santosh Chaubey - http://severallyalone.blogspot.com/