The personal significance of books

I have seen a little joke before, saying that two people saw a lake at the same time, and there were some seagulls flying in the distance. One of them said loudly, "Look, there are a group of birds flying over the lake. It's so beautiful." Another person sighed, "The falling clouds and solitary swans fly together, and the autumn water lasts for a long time. The same color as the sky." The same object, different expressions, this may be the meaning of the book to the individual.

Books can be seen as a springboard to transcend oneself, or as a tool to escape from low-level tastes. Books, for some people, are like eating. Three meals a day are essential. One is spiritual food, and the other is necessary for the body. The combination of the two can make the whole person achieve a state of unity of mind and body.

"Read good books, study well, study well", this is Mr. Bing Xin's opinion about books mentioned in "Remembering Reading". She is a rare century-old person in Chinese history. She has been dealing with books all her life. Her personal views and insights on reading are worthy of our descendants' understanding and learning. Books are not a rigid necessity for human beings. Just like eating, you can eat it with one less flavoring or with one more flavoring, but the taste will be completely different. The same goes for books. You can read them, or you can not read them. It’s just that after reading them, you can learn more about life and the world, enrich our lives, and fill our brains. If you don’t read them, we can only curl up in our own world. Here, like a frog at the bottom of a well, you think you have the whole world within your field of vision.

Books were originally a tool used to record people’s daily lives. As the saying goes, "A good memory is worse than a bad pen." The first appearance of a book is to record more things and bind them into volumes. In the beginning, people would draw various symbols on stones and walls in order to remember something, which we now call hieroglyphs. This was the original prototype of recorded writing. Later, Chinese characters were invented, and people began to look for alternatives to writing. Bamboo slips appeared, which were also the earliest books in human history. Later, the Chinese invented paper, which changed the history of human writing. As the difficulty of writing was greatly reduced, more and more people wrote, and the origin of books began from this. From the common people to the emperors, they were all recording, and then they were systematically organized and bound into books, and finally became It was written into a book and eventually spread to future generations, becoming the content for people to learn from and read each other at that time. We should promote the good things and resolutely abandon the bad things to avoid them. Good words and deeds should be imitated and praised, and bad behaviors and bad habits should be avoided.

For modern people, the personal significance of books is more about improving the ability and value of self-survival. When reading becomes a necessity, the purpose of reading becomes utilitarian, which is naturally different from truly enjoying reading. Although they are both reading, the things they obtain are indeed completely different.

For those who want to join the ranks of civil servants, reading relevant books is a faster and more efficient way. For professionals who want to improve their skills, reading is the most economical and cost-effective way. time method. For those who want to understand the world, realize life through Zen, and improve their inner self-cultivation, reading is a must-do course in this life.

Books have different meanings to everyone. Some people say that books are the ladder of human progress, and that’s right. Some people say that books are tools for measuring the world, and they are right. Some people say that books are the only thing that can make people calm down, and this is even more true. Books are originally lifeless, but different people who read the same book will give it different lives. From the day they were born, some books have been designed to help people apply what they have learned and become tools for integrating into society. Some books have been carrying the important task of reviewing history since the day they were born, allowing generations of people to know the beginning of the world through paper. Some books are designed to create a short life for the world from the day they are born, and compare their own current paths through the short life of the characters in the book. Some books are designed to add a little fun to boring life from the day they were born, just like when a drizzle suddenly begins to fall on a sunny June day. There is no distinction between high and low books. Books are also the "species" that least know how to compare and show off in the world. No matter rich or poor, everyone has the right to read.

To an individual, a book is gold to those who need it, and waste paper to those who do not need it. If reading is regarded as a hobby, then not everyone wants to have this hobby or will have this hobby. For those who like it, they cannot put it down, and for those who hate it, they hate it extremely.