2 Great Lessons I Learned From Reading Books
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1. Reading Books Helped Me Endure My Life

I have thought of taking my life many times. I was even successful at one point, but death was unlucky that day.

You have probably got to the point that my life was not endurable; that’s why I thought of taking such extreme steps. Indeed, it was miserable.

I lived a miserable childhood. I have faced unspeakable horrors. Horrors that my heart doesn’t even allow me to speak here on the blank page. It was darkness all around.

Among all that darkness, I had one hope: reading books, becoming a great man, and breaking the chains of my bondage.

I would read books off and on. I took an interest in books when I was in eighth grade. Since then, my interest only grew.

Reading books has provided me solace always. I have read many sublime tragedies, collections of poetry full of creative pains, and comedies that presented pathos mixed in humor.

With each tragic character, I suffered, and with each fool, I laughed. I wept for their wounds and spiritual scars, but their courage and indomitable spirit have strengthened my own convictions in life.

I loved one thing immensely in tragic characters; they always stand up against odds far beyond their physical powers. They are not daunted by difficulties. With the magnanimity of the problems, still, their mental power overwhelmed those external hurdles and defeated them. These mighty heroes suffer the creative pains, almost unbearable for ordinary folks.

The mental or external difficulties only strengthen them with passaging time. They emerge shinning out of those situations. The more challenging the problems get for them, the toughest they become.

Difficulties and adversity don’t make them weak. It adds to their strengths. I have read somewhere in my teens about a hero who would get more determined with every difficulty that would come his way to achieve his goals.

And that’s what I have done throughout my life. Discouragements have always encouraged me.

Those heroes and the strength of their characters to defy all odds bravely and courageously taught me to be courageous.

I have found one common thing in all great protagonists; they wait for the right time. They nourish their mental and physical capabilities before striking on the adversity.

I learned from them to see adversity as an opportunity rather than a calamity.

I learned from them to endure life, no matter how hard it is. Because heroes face the nadir of their difficult situations before they arise and conquer their antagonists.

So, I waited. I waited long years to read books, learn new things, and practice innovative thinking patterns that helped me climb the success ladder.

2. Reading Books Taught Me to Enjoy My Life

For me, enduring my life was more important than enjoying it. I had first to accept that all that was going will not last. It will end soon, and I have to emerge freely.

Books helped me to endure my life.

But during the process, it also taught me how to enjoy my life, no matter if there was nothing for enjoyment. Books made the unenjoyable enjoyable for me.

I learned to enjoy my miseries. The rarest feeling one can have to enjoy one’s hardships and sufferings. I have known that taste.

There is an unknown creative pain, invigorating suffering, and refreshing nostalgia in living a hard life. But all these things happen when you create hope for getting out of those situations by facing them bravely.

You hope sustains you to see your difficulties diminishing.

When you change your attitude from being overwhelmed to being the force that drives the entire course of actions your way. When you deliberately push all the hurdles backward, that blocks your way. And while pushing them, you realize they were nothing but a cloud of dust that mirrored solid blocks.

When you do that, you enjoy your life. And this feeling comes only when you read. When you read stories that inspire you. Stories where protagonists fight the mighty forces and render them dust with willpower.

The confidence of the great protagonists is contagious. It sparks something in you to take action. They inspire you to believe that what you are going through is changeable. They teach you to stand, fight and arise like a phoenix from your ashes.

I learned how to boldly and bravely confront my life and how to change it for my betterment.

Books are the spirit of life. They stir a movement in you that leads you towards your cherished success.

I can enjoy reading a book. I live in those settings and with those characters for a long time about whom I read. I always feel them as a part of me. Together, they became an integral part of my sweet nostalgia when I reflect on when we got our first acquaintance on the pages of books.

I say hi to characters in books when they are introduced to me first time.

They provide me a permanent joy. My mind is a permanent abode of those lovely characters I loved over the years.