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\u201cI read so many books, but I forgot most of them. But then what’s the point of reading? \u201d
\nThis was the question a pupil once asked his Master.<\/p>\n
The Master didn’t answer at that moment. After a few days, however, while he and the young pupil were sitting by a river, he said he was thirsty and asked the boy to get some water from him using an old filthy sieve that was there on the ground.<\/p>\n
The pupil moved, because he knew it was a request without any logic.<\/p>\n
However, he couldn\u2019t contradict his own Master and, when he got the filter, he began to do this absurd task. Every time he was drowning the sieve in the river to pull some water to take to his Master, he couldn\u2019t even take a step towards him because there wasn\u2019t even a drop left in the sieve.
\nHe tried and tried dozens of times but, as he tried to run faster from the shore to his Master, the water kept going through all the holes in the sieve and got lost along the way.<\/p>\n
Exhausted, he sat next to the Master and said: “I can’t fetch water with that filter. Forgive me Master, it is impossible and I failed in my task.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo \u2013 the old man replied smiling \u2013 you have not failed. Look at the filter it\u2019s like new now. Water, filtering through its holes cleaned it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you read books \u2013 the old Master continued \u2013 you are like the sieve and they are like the water of the river.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter if you can\u2019t hold in your memory all the water they make you flow, because books will anyway, with their ideas, emotions, feelings, knowledge, truth that you will find between the pages, clean your mind and spirit, and you they will make you a better, renewed person. That\u2019s the point of reading.\u201d<\/p>\n
Have a good read everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cI read so many books, but I forgot most of them. But then what’s the point of reading? \u201d This was the question a pupil once asked his Master. The Master didn’t answer at that moment. After a few days, however, while he and the young pupil were sitting by a river, he said he … <\/p>\n