Brain Food #366
If you go home with somebody and they don't have books
Daily Brain Food.
Thoughts of the day
The first part of the year tends to be the quietest. After a frantic December, the pace seems to finally slow down, and we are left with the paradox of what to do with our free time (for if we fill it, it will no longer be free).
Since part of resolutions is knowing they will fail, a better approach is to not resolve to become someone entirely new, but to spend our time doing the things that can help us change for the better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
What better than the slow act of reading to embrace the long, equally slow, winter days. Where we can spend time with ourselves, but still know we are not alone:
“The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.”
― Alan Bennett
And if the above is not motivational enough to inspire you to pick up a book, then the following belief by American filmmaker and writer John Waters might do the trick:
“If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!”