Read.

[Updated from LiveJournal and simulcasted on Facebook]

I used to write reading as one of my hobbies. The truth was that while I enjoy reading, I don’t really do it enough to warrant it as a hobby. Usually when people describe their hobbies it would be things that they enjoy doing and do it all the time. For me, perhaps it’s more accurate to describe reading as one of my interests, among many other interests of course.

Usually when I read, the main purpose is to kill time. Especially when I’m riding on the train, time usually seems to go faster when I’m reading. I still remember I managed to finish the entire series of 倚天屠龍記 on the MTR! Among all the books that I read, I actually enjoy reading autobiographies the most. It’s always interesting to read about people’s lives, how they lived in the past and what kind of difficulties or challenges that they have to go through. I still remember the autobiography that impressed me the most was Hillary Clinton’s one – it was 800+ pages thick and I think it took me close to three months to finish reading it (for your information, as much as my Chinese is not as good my English – which is actually not that good too anyway – I still read Chinese faster than English). But a lot of the things that she covered in the book are still very vivid in my mind. What struck me the most about the book was, rather predictably, Bill Clinton’s affair with “that woman”. For a woman to accept her husband betraying her is already hard to take, and it was always going to be even harder when her husband was the President of the United States. Yet her courage and grace from the whole incident, and how she chose to forgive her husband to ensure that the family did not split up, was truly remarkable. It was even more remarkable to consider that, especially nowadays we are in the age when more and more people seem to not treat marriage as seriously as before. Of course there are always going to be couples who really live happily ever after, but then it seems that there are more and more people getting divorced after getting married that it almost feels like people get married because they want to get divorced – which is something that I can’t really accept anyway (OK I think I was supposed to be talking about reading).

The last couple of days I’ve started picking up some religious books to read to try to discover the wisdom and blessings that Lord has in store for me and true enough, I am beginning to feel His wonders and it just seems to me that He’s got everything prepared and all I have to do is follow. It’s amazing really and I thank God for that. Hopefully I will have the determination to keep reading and perhaps from the words that I read I can understand more about life. That said, I think I still enjoy reading some light-hearted, non-religious books – like 彎彎’s latest book “要不要去我家”, which was delivered to me yesterday afternoon from Taiwan. And since it was more of a comic rather than a novel, I finished reading it in about half an hour – so whoever wants to read the book can borrow from me!