What's The Point In Reading If It Doesn't Make You Think?

Sometimes you come across a piece of prose that is so moving it makes you stop and think.  What's the point in reading if what you read doesn't make you think. All of man's endeavours to make changes to the world have come from someones original thoughts which were then implemented into action.

"Yes, that is correct," I said to myself. 

I read this piece of prose this morning. It was one of those pieces that make you stop and think. 

For the living know that they will die,

but the dead know nothing;

they have no further reward,

and even the memory of them is forgotten.

Their love, their hate

and their jealousy have long since vanished;

never again will they have a part

in anything that happens under the sun.

                                                  

Beautiful in its simplicity, isn't it. It's kinda sad. You know exactly what is being said. You know exactly who is saying it and you know who it is being said too. The narrator is telling you to live for the moment, because that's all life is, a fleeting moment.

Amazing what 51 words, and 6 punctuation marks can do.


Dog Brindle

Ref:  Ecclesiastes 9:5-6