a beatnik glorifying existence: thatkindofwoman: Date a girl who doesn’t read. Find her in the weary...
Date a girl who doesn’t read. Find her in the weary squalor of a Midwestern bar. Find her in the smoke, drunken sweat, and varicolored light of an upscale nightclub. Wherever you find her, find her smiling. Make sure that it lingers when the people that are talking to her…
I cannot agree with the idea not to date a girl who reads.
A girl who reads can understand and appreciate complexity. And I assume that with that understanding of complexity and sufficient empathy, she would be better informed and wiser in her actions and speech.
So many relationships are bound by thin threads of superficiality, where a relationship is understood to be a relationships, which is understood to be a relationship.
Literature brings me to deep ends of the world. It is rather entrancing (is there even such a word) in that it transports me out of my everyday life into somewhere else. It allows for imagination, and emotions and feelings to unravel. And sometimes you find yourself seemingly striking a chord with the author, so very strangely and almost magically.
Literature has opened my eyes to different perspectives and feelings. Because you can never really see beneath the veil of social behaviours of people - their thoughts - through everyday interaction. Reading brings me to this ponderous state, that considers that behind whatever social class people portray themselves to fit along the socially created hierarchy, we all humans are innately similar - flawed, wanting and often insecure.
It often brings me back to God, where I see His Word ring true - that He knows our hearts so deeply.
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Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it,
Prone to leave the God I love;
Here’s my heart, O take and seal it,
Seal it for Thy courts above.
- Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing
wahhhh seriously fb is soo stiflinggg :(
i have the itch to remove friends but then it’ll be pretty unethical. and have complicated consequences
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