The struggle to read in the age of distractions
Reading is one way to heal fiction gives perspective and broadens your views. At the same time you get more empathy for others and other perspectives as well as deepened sense for the oneness of humanity, as well as humility before God, realizing how small (wo)man is and how great God is. It's possible to travel trough time on the pages of a book and through them learn about people who become so close you look twice at the reflection in the mirror when you see yourself, in essence you learn about yourself too. Yet reading is a struggle in the face of a screen. Since Dr. Mukwege (who's work was by the way non-fiction) I've read another few non-fiction books, one on single motherhood or rather alone by choice parenting and about outdoors swimming and about pirates and slaves in the Mediterranean area prior to the colonial era, a book by Dick Harrison, a Swedish historian who makes books for people who don't have patience to read long books. You got it, I've been tryi