Today while I was doing my regular yoga session, as usual I had put on a video on youtube. This time I was listening to something related to books. Actually I wanted to know about some new genres that I haven’t explored yet, to find out my favourite genre. Anyways, somehow i came across a video that talked about slow reading. It picked my attention, for I had many a times heard or watched or read about increasing one’s reading speed. So this was definitely interesting and specially because the person was saying about how he could read more books because he reads slowly, sometimes even three pages for one full hour. This does seem interesting. Slow reading helps us to grasp the essence of the literature much better rather than just grazing through. And then I remembered, it’s the same thing that we have been doing since ages. The way our scholars or elders told us to read one verse or shloka from our sacred literature. It’s the same thing. We need to absorb what we are reading. Though you can graze through also at times. It’s not a sin. But some books really need to read slowly. We can say they should be chewed slowly like food to benefit from all the nutrients that they carry.
And also like I said reading fast is not a sin, similarly reading slow is also not a crime. This I am actually telling to myself, for sometimes I do feel guilty when I am dragging certain book for longer duration than usual.
I have found a solution to this also. As I have mentioned in my previous article, I have started reading multiple books at a time . If at all it gets difficult to read certain book due to my mood or any reason, I just take a break from it, however long may be, and then get back to it when I feel like. Well, this is a topic for discussion for some other time.
The gist is you can read slow and its not a crime. In fact it will help you in many ways. I will definitely write about it as I gather more experience on the said topic.
Till then bye 😊😊😊
