A phenomenon in itself ageless with time remarkably almost everlasting or so it seems. Assaulted in current times by modern society and its advancement into the millennium in perhaps a misguided attempt to replace the written word with fancy electronic devices designed to make life easier and more enjoyable. I say never, how do we replace the total enjoyment of reading, the wonder of travelling the world and beyond from fantasy to fiction the simple art of literary expression. How do we settle down at night in bed on a cold wet wild winter night with an electronic device to tell us a story of comfort, hard to imagine perchance.
There is a certain feeling of holding a book grasping its cover in your hands, inhaling the aromatic mixture of ink on paper, an archaic inexplicable notion maybe, maybe not. Snuggle up on the lounge with the latest novel that can still by far surpass the latest blockbuster movie in entertainment value by using the intrigue and deception of story telling, to whip us into a frenzy of excitement and anticipation of a climatic ending that leaves us with a natural high for hours or maybe just allows us to drift into sleep and perhaps pleasant dreams as we relive in our subconscious, wondrous moments of action, drama and romance. The swash buckling gun ho bravado of heroes, of days gone by, descriptions of anguish, love, or even passion and pain. Rendering with words, pictures of the amazing achievements of mankind, delicious words to describe landscapes that explode in ones mind, startling accounts of mountains, rivers woods and jungles that without this gift of expression may never reach into the minds of man, never to light the fuse of discovery, of new beginnings, of new frontiers that climb along with us to the very pinnacles of the future.
Whisking us perhaps and certainly our youth to seek adventure to reach out for explanations of and to spark the human need for explanation and reasoning for answers that we may never obtain but at least have the courage to search for, all this from the inner most secrets of books that stir the spirit within us to learn. Such amazing moments have books created during my passage of time as I have aged thru my years, adding to my ability to think, to learn, to achieve, to just experience fantastic at times unimaginable places, be plunged from the heights and depths of untold mysteries, magic moments, in fact memories imprinted forever in my mind whilst firmly residing also in my heart and soul. Let us never forget the value of a "Book", the knowledge that it may hold the adventures it may bring to us or even the rejuvenation of our inner feelings and emotions so often forgotten as we grind through the drudgery of everyday events that oft times overshadow the minds ability to perceive tales and stories that could well lift us into the reality of a new day, a new realism peppered with a sprinkling of optimism, enthusiasm and sheer delight.
Be prepared "go on I dare you" to risk a stab at picking up that old dusty book and open it to the betterment of the mind, be careful though you may become actually reattached to the art of reading as it broadens your horizons as you may never of imagined, guaranteed to tantalize and bring a sparkle of new life to your well being for all time, a fine ending to another story that is the contents of a book.
Stuart Charles Mackenzie [stumacsu]
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