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We have often discussed the many reasons for reading; for entertainment, for information, for self- growth and so forth. But one more occurred to me the other day and that is for the chance of pondering…stopping to consider what we have read and how it applies to us or our world and thinking about choices we have to make or have made. Pondering things can be a great pleasure and the writer who causes us to do that is a good one.
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Good writers also teach us how to ponder. They present more than one choice and show the consequences of our actions.
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Of course the most famous poem on this topic is one of my favorites:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44272/the-road-not-taken
The Road Not Taken
By Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
What books have made you stop and ponder?
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