No Emotion is the Final One
"Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from our home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere." --Jean Rhys In the past few months I've rediscovered reading. Like most things I used to expect too much ... not of reading but of myself. I read or only wanted to read non-fiction books - books that promised to make me smarter. Books that when you mentioned them at gatherings people like myself thought, "Oh I don't know anything about that. " But reading, much like running, needs to be a personal endeavor. The moment you start the comparison is the moment you lose the joy. This a hard fact for me to swallow - at least the part of me that is a competitor. But, I'm striving to do things more because I love them rather than because they help me compete... "What could I do? My needlework teacher suffered from a problem of vision. She recognised things according to expectation and environment. If you were in a particular p...