Ridiculous title, no ?
I used to think so, too.
It is only recently that I have been convinced otherwise.
If you do what I do, and you like to take your time reading your books, to really delve into them, live with them a good three weeks or a month, or even more, you will understand. And even if you were a fast reader, you'll still get what I'm trying to say.
Once you start bonding with a book, and your life and its story start to intertwine, something, a very small thing, changes.
The way you see your life starts to get affected, even if in a very slight way.
The book's reflections, ups and downs, characters, twists, and morals all start to do stuff in the back of your head, and that, whether you like it or not, does affect you.
I've read a psychology book once, and it was talking about studies that have been made that prove that what people read can affect how they think or how they perform on a specific test (short term effect).
But I think that even on the long term, when you have lived in the sphere of your book for some time, when you change the way you think, take on a new perspective, you're bound to be left with something, even if little traces that might seem like nothing to you. Over time you get to gather traces that can pile up and build a beautiful thing inside.
Or an ugly thing.
So yes, I believe that good stories can change lives, by slightly and slowly changing minds. Not drastic change, yes, but still. Changing the ideas of those around you is a powerful thing to do.
"Ideas are bullet proof.", right ?
I dream to write a mind-changing book one day, inshaAlla.
I used to think so, too.
It is only recently that I have been convinced otherwise.
If you do what I do, and you like to take your time reading your books, to really delve into them, live with them a good three weeks or a month, or even more, you will understand. And even if you were a fast reader, you'll still get what I'm trying to say.
Once you start bonding with a book, and your life and its story start to intertwine, something, a very small thing, changes.
The way you see your life starts to get affected, even if in a very slight way.
The book's reflections, ups and downs, characters, twists, and morals all start to do stuff in the back of your head, and that, whether you like it or not, does affect you.
I've read a psychology book once, and it was talking about studies that have been made that prove that what people read can affect how they think or how they perform on a specific test (short term effect).
But I think that even on the long term, when you have lived in the sphere of your book for some time, when you change the way you think, take on a new perspective, you're bound to be left with something, even if little traces that might seem like nothing to you. Over time you get to gather traces that can pile up and build a beautiful thing inside.
Or an ugly thing.
So yes, I believe that good stories can change lives, by slightly and slowly changing minds. Not drastic change, yes, but still. Changing the ideas of those around you is a powerful thing to do.
"Ideas are bullet proof.", right ?
I dream to write a mind-changing book one day, inshaAlla.
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