I’ve always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library, says Jorge Luis Borges.
“A true friend is your 2nd self”. This is my personal experience that, like human friends, books are our best companions. When I read a book, I feel like talking to my best friend. Every book I read moulds my strengths and shapes my personality. Book gives us education, knowledge and pleasure.
Importance of reading books beggars description. Book is our great advisor because when we face any trouble, book stands by us to help. A person never feels alone in the company of books. Book spreads us knowledge, develops our mind, and awakens our conscience.
We become nomad without the touch of books. Book guides us when we become confused. Book consoles us in our moments of extreme despair. Book undoubtedly inspires us to struggle for higher aims. Like a true friend, it makes us smile and removes our loneliness.
Unlike human friend, book is always beside you. It never gives a lame excuse for its prior engagements. If you disagree with a book, it never minds your criticism.
Books are a medium to transport us into another world. To anyone else, they may like pages full of dull print, but to me, they open a door to a wondrous world of magic, mystery, imagination, love…. all created through a fantastic display of words.
Consciously or unconsciously, we take care of the books as if they are our best friends…….and yes, they are. Books are a great source of pleasure as well as learning.
Books are our never failing friends. Our worldly friends desert us but they never. Friends are plenty when the purse is full but fair-weather friends fall off in adversity. They lift the poor out of poverty and the wretched out of misery. Like best friends, the really good books sharpen our intellect, broaden our mind, enrich our experience, widen our knowledge, uplift our morals, making us better, nobler and happier in life.
Good books are like gold mines. The more one works as a