Read A Book, Change Your Life
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Blog posts are so weird.
It’s like everyone’s trying to be Tony Robbins.
There are those niche “nerd” websites that talk about video games and cosplay, but I find those to be complete nonsense half the time.
When you are looking to learn, to find answers to your problems, you could spend hours before you find one blog post that is worth your time.
If you are as frustrated with the “internets” as I am then maybe you should try something I just recently rediscovered.
Reading books.
I’m not a big book reader even though I write.
Someone at my writers group recently wanted to get rid of two boxes of books and she let me look through her boxes and grab some. I picked up Dennis Lehane (My favorite), Brad Thor, James Patterson and some others, and all of them were NY Times Bestsellers.
Reading could be the quickest way I’ve ever added meaning to my life.
They say you read to know you’re not alone.
Reading NY Times Bestsellers, you can’t really go wrong, because people are already buying these like cray and the reason is they are well written and are a great escape.
I’ve read many a blog post to try to find meaning in my life and lots of them give advice like run, join a gym, meditate, volunteer — sure, all great ideas, and I do all this at certain times, but picking up a book and reading it, in my opinion, is a lot more meaningful than scouring blogs for life’s answers.
A book will probably give you those anyway.
One of my favorite books is Moby Dick. It’s about a “bum” who signs up to be a whaler when he grows tired of being a landlubber.
It’s a “classic” and the book is timeless so if you pick it up and read it you will just forget your problems immediately.
You can even download books from libraries now for free. Did you know this? Yeah, Amazon owns that too, but it’s cool. It’s called OverDrive.
The sad part is they make you wait for a copy if it’s checked out. Not cool. This is the digital age y’all!
I don’t have any answers.
Sometimes I wake up in the morning (or go to bed at night) certain life has no meaning and it is all chaos and then we die.
I’m depressing aren’t I?
It’s hard to convince myself different when my mind goes along this “track.”
It would be better if I read a book before I went to sleep. I usually watch Amazon Prime though as of late.
Anyway, a book - a bound set of pages - that’s what a book is. You can use your kindle for it, too of course. Or you can read what someone chiseled in stone or wrote on papyrus leaves or try a modern book instead.
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