Learn from the classics

Lately, I am getting sick of reading chick lit and other modern day novels because it's becoming more like an extension of my real life...when my main reason for reading a fiction is to escape reality and visit a different world.

So...I started buying classics like Wuthering Heights and Jane Austen's Novels.
And wow...now I know why classics are forever.

Well, I wouldn't tackle on the story. I would give you the liberty to read on your own and discover the treasures buried in these novels.

But there's one thing I observed and learned...the difference between having so much and having so little.

In classic stories...main characters like Hareton and Catherine Linton entertain themselves by reading books or walking around and appreciating the flowers and everything around them. Lovers survive by writing and reading letters, spending time with each other....dreaming and looking at the stars together. No Television, No Ipod, No Macbook, No PSP...Yet they are happy and content. Perhaps because with having little...you are able to appreciate and love every part and every detail of whatever you have and keep it as if it's the only thing that can make you happy.

Today...there is a flood of material things... and people have so much. When you have money...you are powerful. You can buy anything you want...except for time and happiness. Take notice...the more you have...the more you want to have more...It's hard to be content. Why? New things are like candies to your eyes...and soon you will be consumed with greediness as you want to taste everything. The next thing you know...you're already old and the good life will soon be over...and yet you feel that you haven't tasted the best one yet.

Life is what you make it.
Learn from the classics.
Less is always more.



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