Chapter 6 Reading wish for this year

It's another year.At the beginning of the new year in 1963, as usual, I have a little wish, and I can't avoid it. My wishes are not so much new wishes as old ones.Because these are my usual wishes, which have been stored for a long time, but have not been fulfilled.Now, taking advantage of the beginning of the new year, I specially bring it up again, and give myself a spur. My wish is: to write less and read more this year.If you can't, then you should read more and write more.Don't just write and don't read. Recently, my hunger for books has become more and more urgent.There are some books that I am determined to read carefully, and I take them out and put them on my desk. They are always close at hand, and I have no chance to open them.

The little time I have is often completely occupied by reading books that I need temporarily, or books that I don't want to read at all.As a result, those few books were suppressed to the bottom, and they were never read. After some time, by chance, because of some other feelings, I thought of a few other books that I should read, and I brought them to my hand again.The result was still the same, and some books that I didn't want to read took up time, and I never succeeded in reading them. As time goes on, these books that I want to read but haven't read are piling up on my desk. In the end, I have to move things to make room for new dreams.My desire to study is just like this, day after day, day after day.

That's why I'm re-introducing this wish to myself on this day.Although I wish for peace in the world, peace of the country and people, and happiness for my relatives, friends and readers, I also hope to be able to enrich myself.If it is impossible not to write more, then at least you should read more, and you must not just write but not read. At one time, I used to read a lot, and I had to read several books at the same time in a day.After reading historical or academic works, then switch to novels or notebooks to spice things up.Many boring and heavy books have been successfully read under such circumstances.But this kind of study life, in retrospect, seems to be a dream. , "John Christopher", several larger cultural history, art history, and 500 kinds of notebook novels from Wenming Bookstore, all read under such circumstances.But now, I tried to read several different Biasley biographies, and failed many times.I decided not to remove this stack of books from my desk for the time being, in order to test whether I have the perseverance to carry out the reading wish I made again at the beginning of this new year: write less and read more this year, or write more and read more this year. Don't just write and don't read.