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Posted on July 4, 2010 by June

Socrates said,” the unexamined life is not worth living”, and I couldn’t agree more. If a book I’m reading doesn’t cast light on human nature, I generally set it aside. By reading about other people’s lives, especially when these lives are convincingly conveyed on the page, I feel I understand a little more about my own life. Powerful writing helps me in my quest to understand life and put it in perspective. I think I have just assumed this would be true for most book lovers.

With this assumption, I casually asked a fellow book club member whether or not she too particularly enjoyed reading that enriched her philosophy of life. After uttering a flat “No”, she looked at me as though I had come from another planet. This was a woman with whom I had been in a book club for ten years! Now I’m thinking that perhaps she found me more than a little naive. Perhaps she thought that someone as ancient as I would have stopped asking such questions long ago. After all, wise old Socrates said, “All I know is that I know nothing.” Shouldn’t I become more set in my ways? Perhaps. Just one problem: Can’t do it. No way. To stop asking myself the big questions would be like trying to stop breathing. It’s not in my DNA!