Mercy me

I'm not a perfect person, I know that very well, but for some reason I've reached another point in life where I tend to wonder just how much I haven't realised and when I do realise something, it's just like...hitting your head on a brick wall.

Or something like that, but not quite *shrug*.

I dog-ear my books.

After watching "Finding Forrester," the character William Forrester goes, "...you've dog-eared one of them. Show a little respect for the author, huh?" It rather made me re-assess myself when respecting books and those who wrote them, and when he mentioned dog-ears, I had to think a little more about it only because I did exactly that. I wondered why some people didn't like to dog-ear their pages, and no one had told me why it could ever be wrong in the first place. Again, I get this feeling of "Oh, you dope, see? You brutally flip pages of the book and mercilessly give them dog-ears as you please. How terrible. And to think that this is your natural state of thinking; that you never thought of it that way?"

Maybe it's just a sense of trying to preserve one of the best things that came into the world from man's inventions. Maybe it's just a scrupulosity. Maybe it's just simply wanting to take care of any object that one might have in their possession because it's the right thing to do. For me, I suppose it is in the best interest to take care of what I own, to keep it in its best condition so it will last, but I think I've gotten the point of not dog-earring the book for perhaps a deeper reason. You look at a good book and would hate to see it look less of a sight years later. When you finger the pages of a good book, you really can't let it go after finding it intriguing and satisfying. The story is attached to the pages of the book, and the story is a good gift from the author. You wouldn't mishandle any good gift, now would you? I don't know, maybe I'm just rambling rubbish on here. I just think that there's more to a book that one ought to take into consideration. I'm such a slow poke at realising such things, but bah, oh well. :P

So, yeah, I won't I dog-ear my books anymore; self-revelation has made it so.