I’m interested in knowing what you do with all the tips that non-fiction books provide. Creativity must be born out of time that you manage and use. There is no doubt that nonfiction books delight, enlighten, and educate, but one must use those pieces of knowledge and ideas to develop a new, original piece of creativity. The goal of non-fiction books is to spark a change in you, and you need to set the change into motion. Learn all the theories, educate yourself, and deliver a change.
Only reading books does not make you achieve anything. Books can motivate you, but you must learn to think for yourself. You are the only leader of your life because you need to make all the choices of your life, and you are a true company of yourself. I will talk about creating something original. Gifting something new to the world. Every bit of education is to make you competent to contribute some new idea to the world.
The world needs a better leader, a better politician, a better teacher, a better doctor, or maybe even a better writer. We have more to think about and be environmentally conscious too. We need to utilize minimum resources and manifest more ideas to the world or understanding. There are young climate activists like Greta Thunberg who pressure policymakers to make environmentally sustainable policies. The world needs a better humanitarian on the throne of power. Unless and until we hear from the people involved in committing their lives to a cause for good or spending their whole time for a single purpose, we cannot build a better society. We tend to suppress new and emerging voices. We tend to be more calculative on the materialistic side—thus we lose the change that the world needs.
Hamro Kitab: For the book-loving society
Let me give one example. It might be far-fetched and unrelated to the topic that I am writing about, but my idea is to relate everything that matters to literature. Any written work that is circulated throughout the world in any form can be considered literature, according to my lens. We don’t listen to poets, dramatists, or philosophers. We say fiction writers cannot interpret politics or nationalism—this will cost us. Literature can also be oral. The story that your grandfather made up to make you fall asleep is also literature. If it makes you a moral person, you can inspire a generation to find your story that you can tell your grandchildren. Society has some morality, but we tend to break it in the name of freedom and modernization.
We say that living with parents is distasteful, but that is the richness that your heart can flower to. The morality that a modern son has lost in the name of growing up in a modern world can be brought back and re-cultivated in him from being with his parents. We all grow old, and we cannot help that. Reading moral ideas can be fun, but to be a person filled with morality and simplicity one must need to stay with one’s parents. They should not be a part of our neglect. This is one example of how we can apply the morality we learn from education. Making life easy for our parents, can still allow us to follow our passion if we give time to ourselves. My emphasis is on the neglect that we have towards our parents in the name of modernization. We read good quotes on social media but talk with grudges with our parents.
Firstly, we practice humanity in the family. How to talk in public emerges from our day-to-day behavior in the house. We learn to say no to crime and violence, no to being an outlaw in a true sense from the sense of belonging. Having spent a few years away from home since my teenage years, I have found a sense of peace in staying with my parents. I get to listen to their wisdom, and their life choices, and rejoice in the understanding of it. But it is necessary to make our parents contemporary. They should know the happenings around the world. It is easy in this digital age to cultivate such habits in our parents as well.
Let us modernize ourselves but not forget our culture and history—this is a moral idea with not an ounce of newness in it. But it helps to make us a better human. One must listen well and absorb what is happening around us. I say we abandon being materialistic and only look at our needs. If we can live spaciously in a one-storied building, we might not need to invest in a two-storied building. The amount of hard work, resources, and mental energy that we waste to earn better so that we can be a better person materialistically is secondary to me. I love simplicity to its true essence, and I am willing to barter my soul for it too.
If any non-fiction work can teach us how to be a better person to look after our family, we can cultivate that. If every family thinks in terms of morality, we will have a better society and better countries. There is “technological isolation”. We are after religious salvation and material progression at the same time. My goal is not to make you starve; we need the economy to sustain our lives and put food on our table, but we should not use material progression to measure success. It creates negative socialization, and it spreads like wildfire. In the end, we know we love nature, and we know we need peace of mind. The goal is to create a better human being who can think for himself. Be the change and inspire your family. By being that inspiration, you leave some valuable treasure for the world. You leave a legacy and become a better history. Humankind always looks for inspiration when in times of despair.
We have become more conscious in terms of peace, ecology, and environment, better reformation and policies. This is the new age of enlightenment. We have reached the climax of digital development. I believe more poets are created by wars. I have also written poetry against wars and have grown the flower of human connection in my soul. Writing helps me to think better, and I have also learned a lot as I sit to write this piece. To conclude, be a better person each day. Learn to think and give your best to the world—cultivate humanity and create a legacy within your family and eventually in the world.
