Monday, January 19, 2004
old hobbies
i forgot how much i loved to read. i received a borders giftcard for christmas and it was a real blessing as i needed to buy a gre book. well, they have all those bestseller books up at the front and one caught my eye: the five people you meet in heaven by mitch albom, the same author of tuesdays with morrie. i never read tuesdays with morrie, but had heard a lot about how inspiring it was. but the five people looked really interesting. plus the cover has a lovely shade of dark red. :)
i started reading it just last week and i would try to read just a chapter a night. but so many nights i just couldn't stop reading even when i was so tired and falling asleep. i finished it in three nights, staying up until 2am for 2 of those nights. and everytime i went on a bathroom break, i recalled when i was in 6th grade and i'd order books from those little catalogs from school and how much i loved reading. i loved reading stories, real or fiction. i get so engrossed with people's lives and just want to see what happens to them. books have made me cry, made me scared, happy... every sort of emotion. and it's even better than tv because i actually use my imagination. and even when i read such long novels as a tree grows in brooklyn and it was such a pain, i couldn't just forget about it. i really wanted to finish it. i liked having that sense of accomplishment that comes with finishing something you started. it's something i haven't been practicing lately, often starting many tasks without finishing them.
i guess my love for reading has still continued, only it's been reading people's blogs nowadays. it's still stories and thoughts of people's lives and that's what makes it so interesting. especially the fact that they're real people's lives too. but some writers' styles are just really interesting too. i think that's what made the five people so captivating. i definitely recommend it. it doesn't pertain to any specific religion and i think everyone can relate to it in one way or another. i can lend you my copy if you like!
i started reading it just last week and i would try to read just a chapter a night. but so many nights i just couldn't stop reading even when i was so tired and falling asleep. i finished it in three nights, staying up until 2am for 2 of those nights. and everytime i went on a bathroom break, i recalled when i was in 6th grade and i'd order books from those little catalogs from school and how much i loved reading. i loved reading stories, real or fiction. i get so engrossed with people's lives and just want to see what happens to them. books have made me cry, made me scared, happy... every sort of emotion. and it's even better than tv because i actually use my imagination. and even when i read such long novels as a tree grows in brooklyn and it was such a pain, i couldn't just forget about it. i really wanted to finish it. i liked having that sense of accomplishment that comes with finishing something you started. it's something i haven't been practicing lately, often starting many tasks without finishing them.
i guess my love for reading has still continued, only it's been reading people's blogs nowadays. it's still stories and thoughts of people's lives and that's what makes it so interesting. especially the fact that they're real people's lives too. but some writers' styles are just really interesting too. i think that's what made the five people so captivating. i definitely recommend it. it doesn't pertain to any specific religion and i think everyone can relate to it in one way or another. i can lend you my copy if you like!
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quotable quotes
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"To try is to risk failure. But risk must be taken because the
greatest hazard of life is to risk nothing. The person who risks
nothing does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid
suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change,
grow, live, and love."
~unknown
"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues."
~ Abraham Lincoln
"live a life that others will remember years from now, NOT because it pointed to you but because of how it pointed to the One who made you."
~ Mark Hart, the Bible Geek
"we grow up learning to become self-reliant, but really we need to be God-reliant"
"we could learn a lot from crayons: some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, some have weird names, and all are different colors....but they all exist very nicely in the same box"
"never wound hearts that love u, never give them the endless pain, because wounded hearts are like roses that never bloom"
"there comes a time when we have to stop loving someone not because that person has stopped loving us but because we have found out that they'd be happier if we'd let go"
