Owing to my love for books, I planned to visit the annual world book fair. In this tech savvy and e-form driven world, there's not much that the hardbound form of books could offer. Yet to my surprise, the number of people that turned up for this event was much more than expected.
I held the opinion that people are not much interested in reading and imagining (rather using brain) because due to the technological developments, everything is in their phones (concluded on the basis of travel observations). I was rather delighted to see many people turned up with their kids. But couldn't see through the fact that for them this was just a picnic. Who in the world gets their infants from the cradle to the bookworld?
It more seems like people just can't go to places where it does seem sensible to go.
Initiating kids to the bookworld is no wrong, but what about the fact of teaching them the basic etiquettes and values of not howling around like madmen? I was less able to roam about perusing my passion, more trying to save the kids from getting hit on their run accidentally by me or the stuff I had.
So, I still love books, but I think I'll have to find other ways to reach them now on.
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