A Wordy Pursuit

We all read at some point in our daily lives. We read when we scroll through social media, and we read the caption of the next Netflix watch or the advertisement on that billboard. But what we consume in these forms is hardly deliberate, as we are mostly mindless during the process. Moreover, many things we find on these platforms are not value-centric. Yes, it seems glittering, authentic to an extent but is also sinister in its effects (barring a few exceptions).

“You are what you read. The information that you input into your mind informs your thinking patterns and influences your output in the form of the decisions you make, the work you produce, and the interactions you have” – Zat Rana.

This doesn’t mean that we should back out of all social media platforms and disconnect our internet connections tomorrow morning. It’s not about the tool; it’s about the way we use it. And the internet certainly has plenty of good content to consume. Amazon reviews and ratings help a reader decipher the quality of the publication and the contents before deciding to finally make the purchase. Kindle, the e-reading platform unparalleled to any other, brings thousands of books at our disposal, all of which can be read with lesser investments and space. The digital medium, in a way, introduces us to people and characters whom we would have rarely come across or read about.