https://blog.aabouzied.com/blog/reading/Recent content in Reading on The Smoking Duck BlogHugoen-USCopyright © 2021, Ahmed Abouzied.Mon, 03 Jan 2022 03:40:17 +0200https://blog.aabouzied.com/on-the-internet-conquest-of-happiness/Sun, 02 Jan 2022 00:00:01 +0000https://blog.aabouzied.com/on-the-internet-conquest-of-happiness/<h2 id="you-outgrow-your-town">You outgrow your town</h2> <p>Sympathetic surroundings are essential to happiness. I think it’s common enough to find oneself in a situation of recalling the song <a href="https://youtu.be/XFkzRNyygfk">“Creep” by Radiohead</a> and to be specific the part “What the hell am I doing here?&quot;. I dare say that you -the reader- share the experience with me of finding no one to share the interest in a specific subject you deeply care about. You find the people and the environment surrounding you to be not just ignorant about that subject, but also discouraging. A young person who wishes to read a serious book is discouraged by their parents. Teachers tell them off in the fear that these books may disorient their thoughts. And let’s not ignore the mere reason that this fear for the young person from such book induced by the parent, teacher or even friends is due to the mere fact that they have never read such books and they have neither the interest nor the will to read such books. They find that the young person’s interest in such books or topics peculiar and not useful. The young person then, of course, will themself lonesome and unhappy. For they seek to meet others with similar interests.</p>