BiEnG a BoOkWoRm

Books- great friends of human-kind. They are the true companions of  man and play the role of awesome surroundings. We all, more or less, love reading. Some of us love seeing it arranged on the shelves of libraries, some of us prefer to buy famous, costly books just to make our collection rich enough. And the third one who are most fantastic, wonderful and above all real book lovers- it would not be wrong to call them book worms.

A bookworm generally reads loads of books and it actually makes them happy and keeps them refreshed. Not all of us appreciate bookworms that much, for they are pretty weird. Not weird, just not like the other people in the world. As they read a lot books, they know about lot things. They know human nature. They love to observe people. If you are a specific genre lover, like, you only love to read sci-fi series or ghost books or detective ones then knowingly or unknowingly you will start believing that you’re those cool fictitious characters and your role models will be those characters.

Now, parents. They are always on the opposite direction from us, aren’t they? Even though you are doing right, they will blindly believe that you are doing it pretty wrong. Well, I’m not against parents nor I’m criticizing them. But what I’m saying is correct and proven in hundreds of psychological theories. It’s very natural to have clashes with parents at the time of teenage. So, let’s not count that.

What I’m trying to say all these time is, being a bookie is not good thing but a VERY good thing! As much book you will read, as much true man you will become. Napoleon said once,

“Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.”

Books will not make you perfect, they will rather make you good. They will not help you to get good grades at exams but they will show you the right way. They will not help you to gain power but they will make you courageous enough to stand for what is right.

Books will help you to “know thyself”. So, let’s all read books. Trust me, this is cooler than social networking sites. It is more interesting to know what twist is coming at the next page than to check notifications on Facebook.

And now, they- who call themselves readers and roam around with some very high-thought books, just to get the surprising looks from friends, I don’t know what to say for them. Again, those people  who love showing attitudes and whenever they talk they love to recite lines of poems and stories from the books they have read, just to get clap and pats on their back, I don’t know what to say for them either. Maybe they should ask themselves, why they read book? For them or for others?

So, my dears, why don’t you grab a book right now and start with it? Why don’t you become Miss Marple, Mr. Holmes, Feluda or Topshe? Those very feelings, I’m asking you, does it ever gets old?

NOTE: Feluda and Topshe are characters from Bengali literature. Of  a detective series named “Feluda” written by Satyajit Ray.