Understanding is Everything Date Wednesday, April 24, 2024 - 06:39 PM PST Topic Books When I was a child, at about the age of nine, if my memory serves me well, I made a daring attempt to read The Scarlet Letter, the actual unabridged version. My mother bought it for me proud of her young daughter’s “advanced” reading level. As soon as we got to the car I started reading that book, I read the hell out of it. I took in every word from cover to cover, and understood … none of it. At the time I felt almost superior to my peers just because I had read a difficult book, never mind that I was young to understand it, I was still proud. Now that I’m older I realize that, honestly there was no reason for me to feel proud of myself. I didn’t understand anything, and therefore hadn’t gained anything by reading that book. So me reading it was pointless. I discovered that doing anything with out understanding is pointless. Most of the time it’s the little questions like “Why?” and “How?” that are the most important to ask and answer. the infromation that is aquired from those answers that is needed to better our selves. I have allways felt that the purpose for living is the aqusition of knowledge With out understanding, life is well… pointless This article comes from Shmeng http://www.shmeng.com/ The URL for this story is: http://www.shmeng.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=804