Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. - Issac Asimov
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People who listen to audiobooks are cheaters.
While listening to an audiobook is certainly better than never knowing the words within a novel's pages, it is most certainly cheating. Especially, if you are walking around doing other things while listening to it. People who listen to audiobooks are cheating themselves out of an experience, cheating a book out of their attention, and cheating everyone else who actually sat down and took the time to physically read the book. Books are meant to be treasured and held between your hands. You are meant to behold their words with your own two eyes and smell the very scent they hold between their pages with your own two nostrils. By not giving a book your full attention, you are committing the heinous crime of literary negligence, which is directly punishable by a lack of the true experience a book has to offer you. (P.S. : The Grapes of Wrath as well as a few other books are excluded from this rule because they are terribly dry.) Assumptions are really killing me. Why on earth do we insist on assuming we know everything there is to know about everyone we ever meet?
I recognize that I'm using hyperbole., but I care not. When we all stop assuming things and passing false judgements on other people, then I will stop exaggerating; but until that day I will hyperbolize to my hearts content. I am calling every single one of you out, and also myself (even though I like to think I'm doing better). Small Towns, you do it the most. Be honest with yourself and recognize that you have, at some point, assumed something about someone else because of either what you heard or what you have seen. No one will ever completely understand even their closest family members. People are complex, mysterious, and beautiful creatures. No matter how perceptive you feel you are, I assure you that there is no way you know everything about anyone, not even yourself. Accept that there is mystery in everyone. Accept that there will be things that you do not understand. Never assume that you know the whole story. You can have opinions, in fact I would encourage you to do so, but please keep an open mind and keep your mouth shut about things that you may be completely uninformed about. |
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