Thursday, April 5, 2012

reading Leading to Humility

"The more you know, the more you know that you don't know" ~ Stephen R Covey


Each creative word your read strikes something in your mind. Most often for the beginners, it is the sentence above that would be struck first. Something that forces you to read that sentence again and again, over and over until it is clear to you what the revelation is. The more you realize that there are a lot of things you are unaware of, the more it brings in a level of humility to you. But this realization of unawareness, ironically, brings to you a strange sense of pride. The pride, when among others, says to you that there more things that you don't know than the people around you. Its funny sometimes. This strange pride helps you keep the knowledge power you have gained in the close bounds of selective discussion with selective people. And it is this same pride that gives you the urge to enjoy the book in hand and then move on to other books. Will a man see his joy of reading end before his lifetime, I don't think so.
Is this feeling the same for the wise people who has traveled the marvelous path of reading and have had the company of stupendous books, I don't know. Will have to wait and see whether I am worth to be a wise man.