I love reading but as time has gone by, I feel a bit guilty to read because it doesn’t directly lead to financial benefits.
Since money is needed to survive, should I bother to waste my time to read if it doesn’t help me earn money?
I want to live reading and preserve it, but in a world where technology seems to dominate most of our lives, I’m always feeling some pressure to pursue other hobbies that would benefit me financially and I have started to feel guilty about buying books and reading them for myself.
I know that society isn’t purely about money, but you need money to survive and it makes sense to focus on trying to make money in order to put food on the table. I’m sort of having a mental crisis about reading books. Should I still keep reading them if I enjoy doing it? Would it hinder my ability to make money?
by wonderfulworld25
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> The less you eat, drink, buy books, go to the theatre or to balls, or to the pub, and the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you will be able to save and the greater will become your treasure which neither moth nor rust will corrupt—your capital. The less you are, the less you express your life, the more you have, the greater is your alienated life and the greater is the saving of your alienated being.
If you will reduce your life to money that’s your choice, no one else can talk you out of it. It’ll be a miserable and horrible little life and then you will die and all the money in the world will not change that.
You can’t make any money in an hour before bed, or after waking up. That’s when I like to read. It broadens your mind, and that helps you be a more complete person, and that helps you make money (or at least it doesn’t hurt)
What’s the point of earning money for the sake of earning money.