Seeking Insights

Everyone knows reading is great. One can always learn a thing or two from reading the simplest article, and if one takes a bit effort, one can always transform it into his own flight. Books or eBooks are great source of acquiring understanding and penetration in what are unfolded in these books; one can learn different cultures of different countries, experiences of hardship and successes, gaining overwhelming amount of valuable knowledge never thought before which can help to shape our core beliefs and values. I, personally, enjoy non-fictions on current affairs, environments, civilization, histories which could help us to understand a lot more about each other. It is too important not to know about such humanitarian matters. The reason our world has became so corroded its societies and environments is beyond pressing  for us to ignore and is very much more the reason we must convey such information across all borders. This book, 'Guns, Germs and Steel' by Jared Diamond, came into my attention when I stumbled first upon his later book, 'Collapse' as below. The book 'Collapse' was found idled in my friend's house for months on a table. I started reading reading it every time I went over to my friend's house.

But I jumped straight into chapter 2 because its context caught my attention; this chapter brought to me my first and profound intelligence of  Easter Island in Pacific Ocean and the world it is today. I could not stop from then on. I kept wanting more from the book which told how 'societies choose to fall or succeed'. We may not choose to believe or may cast a doubt on what is written in this book and others, but there are immense intriguing accounts that proved very insightful and thought-provoking. I thought it was the most exciting book I ever read which prompted me to search for similar new books. This is how I ended up with the above book, 'Guns, Germs and Steel'. I thoroughly enjoyed this book, a synthesis of so many fields that takes its readers a journey into 'a short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years.' This book took the Winner Of The 1998 Rhone-Poulenc Science Book Prize. This book told me why and how I can read and write today is truly treasurable, and attributed to thousands and thousands of hard-work, try and error, changes and evolutionary terms by our first ancestors. The many difficult parts  of a complex civilization were laid by our early ancestors who were nomadic or lived in caves. I am not sure where to begin but I can only earnestly encourage readers to try to read this book, try to understand it, because it will broaden your perspectives and appreciation for many petty things in life.

I cherished these values passed down to us. They created writing, speech and hence a language to go with. The many convenient grains and crops we eat today are their work of best and careful selection. How we have became we are today is sadly not learned by so many, not cherished. With the age of instant info, perhaps this book and many others good books would be readily find their ways to the readers.