WHAT WE READ…

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What we read in a book, often times define who we are. One must always be careful of books and what’s inside them, for words have power to change us.

There are books that will point us to different directions, or teach us a lesson, also some help us articulate our own emotions and thoughts and also to help us find a VOICE.

For me, if it weren’t for books I’d read, I’d be a different person today…less of a person, I might even argue.

Books, especially very good ones, have that sort of power. If you let them, they can change your life, serve as another compass or guide, or give you a lift when you need it most.

Reading is a lifeline to all else that is. Think about it, the book you are reading might have been written decades ago, in another country  by a person who lived a completely different life from yours, and as you read, you just might find yourself nodding whilst reading, that means you are also finding a FRIEND and a friendlier existence, you realize you are actually connecting with the BOOK and even the PLACE.

Reading reminds you that you are not alone. Your struggles and dreams are shared. The greatest books comfort you with this sense of belonging.

Reading flexes your empathy, as with any good conversation, when you read, you do a lot of listening. Reading works your capacity to connect to another person and invest yourself in their story. Even if you totally disagree with them(authors), you get to know them, and as any script writer will tell you, “that is how you end up  using that giving-a-damn muscle”. Give any book the opportunity and it will teach you what not to do or say or believe in. But, in order for anything to happen, you have to give it a chance, and to give it a chance, you need to be HUMBLE, you need to think, OK, lemme put my ego down and hear YA out. Reading will very likely remind you that every one of us knows at least one thing better than everyone else. Once you embrace this truth, your humility deepens, because you know you don’t have all the answers, you and your world is not all of it.

Reading also reminds us of how much more is out there, how much more is left to explore and know and live.

The more read, the more you’ll educate yourself by finding what rings true.

Reading challenges you. Taking a book seriously means risking the chance of finding an adversary. A book may become a headwind.

A challenging book will force you to rethink those flabby truths. What you consider true will put to trial, and by defending them, you will grow stronger regardless of the outcome. Reading also helps you remain calm, reading a book is a pleasure, a delight, an adventure – it is meant to be.

According to GREGORY BERNS, lead author of the study and director of the university’s centre of Neuropolicy, “stories shape our lives and in some cases help define a person”. 

Finally, a book will definitely improve your reading, comprehension, skills, lexis, grammar and vocabulary – AMAZINGLY! 

They give general culture, it actually makes your time worth it. Even if you read SciFi books or fables or poems, it gives you an authentic personality, it gives you the opportunity to read infinite minds as the character express their thoughts…

Reading books creates an EVIDENT EFFECT. 

Let’s keep READING!!!👌💯😎😀

A BOOKISH LOVE AFFAIR…

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Here I am, in love again, but this time, wondering if this is true love, if this will last me a lifetime… Don’t want to make the mistakes of my past, not carrying any baggages of my past along. So, I realize… YES!!! This is for real, this is my one true love, et voilà! Caught you there, haaa, fell in love all over again with my BOOKS, my fetish…madly, absolutely, crazily in love. This was my very first love…literarily and yes, we did reconcile because I know the love never went away, just a little distractions here and there, yes, I’m still in LOVE with it- my BOOKS. I came to a realization that we make room for love when we first invite understanding into our hearts, so I decided to understand my BOOKS and start this LOVE AFFAIR all over again. No limits whatsoever, because the greatest limitations in life are the ones we place on ourselves. A book will change your life, if you let it…any book could, but will you let it? You have to stay open-minded enough to try what you find in a book, but of course, when you fall in love, a lot of things change in our lives, don’t they? Let what you find in a book do that for you, help you change your perspective, techniques, or a world view. I’m enchanted by the books I read because truth be told, books actually contain enchantment greater than any spell. I’ll let you fall all over again with your BOOKS and if you already are, let’s hear you…let’s hear your amazing LOVE AFFAIR with your BOOKS. Pls share. 

KEEP READING!!! 

KEEP THE SPARK!!!😍👌😎💯

MY 1402 BOOK LOUNGE…

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Welcome to my lounge1402. My run away spot from the maddening crowd of the day.
 It’s a new day and you are wondering what you would like to talk or read about? Something motivational, fiction, fantasy, romance, horror or adventure? And it just begins to come together… Something to spur the drive for the tasks ahead, yes to pursue life as you see it, and as we would want to live it. 
So then, it has to be motivational. You nod in satisfaction as you suddenly remember that nothing goes away until it has taught what we need to know. Yes, what we are today is the sum of all the decisions or actions we took yesterday. You know that you are not a product of your circumstances, but a product of a decision to win in life or to deal strategically with the cards life has dealt you. My option would be to “win in life”.
I start my future today with little decisions in the little and not-so-little things of life. As the quote credited to FRANCIS ASISI, ” we start by doing what is necessary, then  what is possible, and suddenly we are doing the impossible “. I am now painting the picture of that future I want. Now you may not agree with me but I seem to think, this actually is the toughest part and at the same time, one of the most exhilarating moments when it finally settles deep inside the belly, the pathway to that desired future.  it is that PEACE you feel when your mind captures it and almost want to shout, ‘EUREKA!’. You know what I mean, don’t you? The ‘aha’ moment. That moment you snap your fingers because the sudden flash or flooding of understanding a previously incomprehensible problem or concept. That is usually the moment you decide to be a BOSS and BUILD an EMPIRE knowing that your future is CREATED by what YOU do today. 

That is LIFE… welcome to life, welcome to my book lounge!