Do you not find reasons to read that seem extra today but essential for tomorrow?

Nesar Ahmad Siddiqui
5 min readAug 6, 2024

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All great people have emphasized reading, and its need is surging.

Life is nourished with reading. 
Reading serves like a lamp in darkness. But it is true only for those who are spotting darkness in their lives. 
The width and depth of darkness vary from person to person, even in the same milieu. 
What was learned in the 20s is used in the 50s. This category of individuals is omnipresent. 
Only wise people can estimate what they need in life other than food, shelter, safety, and living together. 
Recognition, resources, and controlling others are priorities, but these aspects of life start fading when we start focusing on the realities of human lives. 
When we continue reading other than the prescribed syllabus in degree courses or skill formation, we feel it is mostly in our hands to make things happen in any sphere of our lives.
If you are not spotting darkness, then carrying a lamp has no meaning. 
Considering the benefits of reading, I prefer inviting people around me to own this habit, even though their response is so-so. 
People classify reading as something not pleasant. 
They have no time to read except what they are fed through horrifying stories (written or oral). 
In the majority of instances, reading has no space in daily routines once people get established socially and financially.
No doubt, for them, life is happening, and they stop reading. However, their emptiness persists in some way or another. 
In strong language, life is unfulfilled.
You are born with some specific purpose for which you have to strive for life. 
We love to talk about fulfilling life but don’t know how to come towards or to this stage. 
Reading is a vehicle to carry you from what you are today to what you may become tomorrow to align with your purpose. 
Both personal and collective upwardness depend on literacy. Reading plays a crucial role not only in boosting literacy levels but also in making it more useful for progress and prosperity in people. 
Degrees make us literate, but these achievements are surely inadequate to address personal and social issues.
 
Literacy is a way to keep pace with changes. However, in this post, my concern is far above simple literacy and boasting knowledge. 
 
Let me summarize the reasons to embrace readings in our lives, no matter what gender, class, age, or culture you belong to. 
Undermentioned are the spheres that I have witnessed more or less personally through the leaning towards reading a variety of books and other formats of information regularly. 
1. Reading facilitates us to get answers to many questions that have persisted in our minds for years. We are competent to inquire about the realities, but the habit of seeking something ready-made adds to our maze. 
2. Reading challenges our perspectives constructed over time on weak knowledge. Continuous reading broadens our perspectives. 
3. Reading ensures paradigm shifts from lowness to highness. I take responsibility for what I failed to acquire in the past. Now, I am convincing myself that all happenings in life have some (unknown) good reasons. It is a change in my paradigm. 
4. Reading empowers us to think differently. After going through many books, I do admit that I have many blessings, but I forget to count and express them sufficiently and openly. 
5. Reading teaches us how to live in the present moments, worrying less about the past and not being too afraid of the future. 
6. Reading leads us to keep going forward, even when things are adverse. 
7. Reading forces us to know how to be not only resilient but turn situations to our advantage. 
8. Reading opens the doors of possibilities. You might have examined it yourself. 
9. Reading helps to know the brief history, beauties in geography, and prevailing conditions of people across the globe. It compels you to feel that you are failing to embrace the abundance of nature around you. 
10. Reading gives up weapons to fight own weakness with impactful success. 
11. Reading gives strength to erase negativity, slowly but firmly. I am now less stressed when things happen against my expectations. 
12. Reading helps me to accept situations as they are, and I take them as starting points to move forward. 
13. Reading is a tool to infuse critical thinking. You are thinking a lot but hardly a little deeper to know a higher level of facts. 
14. Reading makes you understand the meaning of uncertainties, ups and downs in life. 
15. Reading keeps you know how to discard noises outside that are like bubbles of water. 
16. Reading helps to keep your knowledge upgraded and recharged. Otherwise, it is not surprising if you forget even the spelling of common words. 
17. Reading is never a burden if you love it. You can start reading five pages daily and go up to fifty pages, curtailing moments from gossip and long conversation. 
18. Reading helps you to examine the contour of your life every day, every week. Weekly off is probably meant for this purpose. 
19. Reading makes you aware of how to defend values. We fight for values without knowing the common threads in them. 
20. Reading promotes humility and fosters cohesiveness. 
21. Reading saves us from wrongdoings. Many things we are pursuing as patterns. 
22. Reading makes it possible to minimize blame games and fault-finding. 
23. Reading support to create conducive conditions. It is wrong to say—this is not the right time. 
24. Reading drives you into unknown territories to innovate and redesign. From learning a language to reading to writing to speaking our minds—all happenings define our ability in motion. 
25. Reading is the best tool to rectify myths and misconceptions. If you sort out a myth per month, you will notice surprising changes in your conditions of life.

Conclusions
 
# Reading is a game changer in life. 
# When you dig deeper, you discover. 
# Indulge in reading primarily for wisdom and adding novelty in life. 
# Read to meet your long-term aims. 
# Read more to contribute something as remarkable. 
# Always remember that you have untapped potential, even if you have won many prizes in your life. 
# Standing out means absorbing more qualities in your life. There is no end to adding good deeds to your record.

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Nesar Ahmad Siddiqui
Nesar Ahmad Siddiqui

Written by Nesar Ahmad Siddiqui

Hungry to know, excited to share and be connected with you with my feelings, thoughts and ideas. Common words with uncommon impacts.

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