Recently read a book by David Baldacci called “The Collectors”. Really a superb book. The story is very intriguing and one can’t keep the book down before completing it.
Some good things I learned from this book. In story all the characters’ are collecting something. Some collecting book, some cars, other money (something we all do). That makes one think. Are we all collecting something. Like the smiles of our friends, blessings of our elders, love of our beloved. Some of us collect praises of others and there are others who collect goodwill.
Can we somehow classify all these things one is collecting. A simple classification from my perspective. Things that give us happiness and things that give us sorrow. One should always try to collect the first and avoid the second. But first we have to identify which of the things we are collecting gives us what.
I think the same thing holds good for folks like us writing the blogs. We are also collecting something. What am I trying to collect right now… comment from the readers of this blog. Ha ha ha.
I have been reading lot of books recently, and wanted to keep track of which once I have completed and which I wanted to read. So I added a Facebook application called “iRead”. In this application one can write reviews about the books and share them with friends. Good to go through what our friends have to say rather than ending up with a lousy book.
