Cheers To Books

As I sit on my chair and type this poem, I think about our past and the ways we would communicate before. Did we read an electronic novel or did we read a written, bound book? I believe that we had a different mindset in the past and it’s turning into something different as the future approaches us. Instead of worrying about the memory on our hard drive, we used to worry about the amount of ink in our pen. Instead of having a empty digital sheet open in front of us, we used to have a blank thin layer of papyrus presenting itself to us. Instead of laying on our recliners and blindly reading what the web shows, we used to use our feet to get to a local library. The computer is a great device, but we must not cut all our traditional lines. If we indulge in our comforts, we might lose sight to what is valuable to us. Solid, living books may be hard to pick up, but if we look at a flashy screen all day, it won’t be just our eyes that are going to go kapoosh. It’s also our minds.