If I hadn't seen the light, I could have endured the darkness

Carmine 2022-12-06 19:23:58

Reading will make you have a lot of delusions for nothing. If your ability can't keep up, you will live a bad, very bad life.

There are some lives that you simply cannot change. Sometimes people don't even know that a better world exists, but they live a happier life. Countless people live and die ignorantly. Do you think they are unhappy? Not necessarily, a bumper harvest, a market, marrying a wife and having children is much more enjoyable than your life and mine, but the pain comes from awakening. This awakening can be a book, the Internet, or the city people who came to the village suddenly, they suddenly found Being so unfortunate and not knowing how to change is the real disaster in life.

Reading is a catalyst for delusions, it allows you to appreciate different thoughts and different lives, which should have nothing to do with you, but you read it, so you know that there is such a history, such a story, such a life in the world, But can you do it? Some people can, while others can't.

But I still appreciate reading.

I was born in a small town. My classmates received three or four thousand yuan salary and lived happily. My biggest dream was to be admitted to the civil service. Eating Xiabu is a very fashionable thing.

But I don't think life should be like this.

We should go to bigger cities and find more possibilities

This is where my pain comes from

And the opportunity for me to change also comes from this

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  • Helene Hanff: Being used to the dead white paper and the stiff cardboardy covers of American books, I never knew a book could be such a joy to the touch.

  • Helene Hanff: [typing] WHAT KIND OF A BLACK PROTESTANT BIBLE IS THIS! Kindly inform the Church of England they have loused up the most beautiful prose even written. Who ever taught Dr. Tindall the Vulgate Latin. They'll burn for it, mark my words. It's nothing to me, I'm Jewish myself, but I have a Catholic sister-in-law, a Methodist sister-in-law, a whole raft of Presbyterian cousins, through my late Uncle Abraham who was converted, and an aunt who's a Christian Science healer. And I'd like to think none of them would countenance an Anglican Latin Bible if they knew it existed. As it happens, they don't know Latin existed.