读书对于我来说，就像吃饭喝水一样，简直不必去思考它存在的意义。少年时喜欢缠绵悱恻的情感故事；随着生活阅历的增加，当年不喜欢的干货书慢慢开始觉得有意思起来。然而前两天评论一篇文章后，作者回复说“多读书总是有好处的”。
就那么理所应当的读了很久之后，我突然疑惑了：我们为什么要多读书？
英国哲学家弗朗西斯·培根大概说过读书使人明智之类的话。然而，当年我并没有看过培根充满哲理的书，只在学校的墙上见过他的名言警句。
追逐，是一个人的本能
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大学的时候，有个朋友曾和我说过，她来读大学让她的家庭饱受非议：在稍微偏一点的农村里，同龄的女孩子们早早就嫁了人，过着和祖辈们一样的生活；而作为一个女孩子上大学根本没有什么用。甚至于她的一个亲戚觉得无论男女，上那么多学根本没用！作为一个农民，会写自己的名字，会做加减法就够了！他自家的孩子上到小学三年级正如他父亲所说的那样，学会了几个字、会写1、2、3之后，慢慢也就辍学了。
对于当前大多数人来说，好像掌握九年义务教育大概就够用了。毕竟很多人觉得学得再多，毕竟只是死物，不如让“社会大学”好好教导，学学做人。前两年总会在网上看到有人呼吁说高考不必考那么难得数学，也不必考英语，因为很多人究其一生都用不到这些知识。
这种反智主义的论调很有市场，母亲也曾在我大学毕业后对我说：从此以后，你的那些风花雪月就可以收起来了，好好学学社会上的人是怎么做人做事的，好好生活就行了。其他就不要多想了。
这种种说法就好像在表达：书读的再多都没用，我们之所以要上那么多学，读那么多书，一是为了要收获一块好的牌子（大学文凭）从而得到一份能够糊口的工作；二是总要把从小到大的日子混出来，别人都有的东西，你也要有才行。至于为什么要读书？没有意义！
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工作后，我着实过了很长一段时间的颓废日子。每天的自由时间增多，不知道该干什么的我用各种小说填补我的生命。
周围的同事们也会选择一种方式来消磨时光：每天工作之余除了打麻将就是打牌，要不然就是炒股补贴家用。要是某天有人赢了钱或者炒股赚了，总会收获旁人羡慕的眼光，并以此为谈资，津津乐道很长时间。如果要培训学习，他们总是笨手笨脚的抓起鼠标，用二指禅慢慢的打字，对互联网时代格格不入。时间久了，便是我自诩新时代的大学生，面对飞速发展的互联网网络社会总有些力不从心，感觉与社会脱节了！为了不和社会脱节，我变成了一个“网虫”，然而并没有什么卵用，甚至还不如同事们打发时间的方式来得有价值。
不过每个单位里面总会有那么几个非常能干的的人，很幸运我遇到了两个。在他们的影响下，我开始想要提高自己。静极思动，苦于投靠无门。
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在继续过着“网虫”生活的日子里，我后知后觉的发现网上有一些人对自己人生奋斗目标奋力追逐。他们用各种方式在继续充实自己，用各种方式展示自己。原来并不是所有人都在工作后是变成另一种状态的文盲啊！
暂时找不到人生的方向，从模仿自己欣赏的人开始也是不错的选择。我试着放下手中的小说，在互联网上寻找可以学习的各种技能和知识，试着做一些自己力所能及的事情。或许有一天，我也可以成为一个自己喜欢的人，成为一个“成功”人士。
想要提升自己，读书是最简便易行且成本最低的一种方式。为了弥补先天的不足，为了拥有一个饱满的人生，为了一个更好的未来，我们要多读书。
所以多读书总是好的！
追逐梦想的第一步是读书
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Of Study (论读书）
Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment, and disposition of business. For expert men can exe-cute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best, from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humor of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience: for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need proyning, by study; and studies themselves, do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation. Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them bothers; but that would be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books, else distilled books are like common distilled waters, flashy things.
Reading make a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know, that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtitle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend. Abeunt studia in mores. Nay, there is no stand or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out by fit studies; like as diseases of the body, may have appropriate exercises. Bowling is good for the stone and reins; shooting for the lungs and breast; gentle walking for the stomach; riding for the head; and the like. So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again. If his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the Schoolmen; for they are cymini sectors. If he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him study the lawyers' cases. So every defect of the mind, may have a special receipt.
读书足以怡情，足以博彩，足以长才。其怡情也，最见于独处幽居之时；其傅彩也，最见于高谈阔论之中；其长才也，最见于处世判事之际。练达之士虽能分别处理细事或一一判别枝节，然纵观统筹、全局策划，则舍好学深思者莫属。读书费时过多易惰，文采藻饰太盛则矫，全凭条文断事乃学究故态。读书补天然之不足，经验又补读书之不足，盖天生才干犹如自然花草，读书然后知如何修剪移接；而书中所示，如不以经验范之，则又大而无当。有一技之长者鄙读书，无知者羡读书，唯明智之士用读书，然书并不以用处告人，用书之智不在书中，而在书外，全凭观察得之。读书时不可存心诘难作者，不可尽信书上所言，亦不可只为寻章摘句，而应推敲细思。书有可浅尝者，有可吞食者，少数则须咀嚼消化。换言之，有只须读其部分者，有只须大体涉猎者，少数则须全读，读时须全神贯注，孜孜不倦。书亦可请人代读，取其所作摘要，但只限题材较次或价值不高者，否则书经提炼犹如水经蒸馏、淡而无味矣。
读书使人充实，讨论使人机智，笔记使人准确。因此不常作笔记者须记忆特强，不常讨论者须天生聪颖，不常读书者须欺世有术，始能无知而显有知。读史使人明智，读诗使人灵秀，数学使人周密，科学使人深刻，伦理学使人庄重，逻辑修辞之学使人善辩：凡有所学，皆成性格。人之才智但有滞碍，无不可读适当之书使之顺畅，一如身体百病，皆可借相宜之运动除之。滚球利睾肾，射箭利胸肺，慢步利肠胃，骑术利头脑，诸如此类。如智力不集中，可令读数学，盖演题须全神贯注，稍有分散即须重演；如不能辨异，可令读经院哲学，盖是辈皆吹毛求疵之人；如不善求同，不善以一物阐证另一物，可令读律师之案卷。如此头脑中凡有缺陷，皆有特药可医。
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