Recent meditations

While writing the title, I just got reminded of the actual book "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius. Do you guys think I should actually read it? I might anyways, no matter how good or bad it is written. I believe that even reading a bad book gives you something, even more so than not reading it. There are arguments against it, such as time being wasted, "nothing being learnt" or it not benefiting to your status as a reader or so on. However I believe that even bad experiences all lead up to something. The mentality "Good things are blessings and bad things are lessons" seem to make more sense to me than seeing bad things as a curse. I shall explain why. Firstly, reading a bad book can lead you to thinking that "This was a bad book because it did...." This shows that from reading this book, you now know what a bad book or a badly written essay looks like, which can prevent you from making the same mistakes. This is basically the same as saying "you learn from your mistakes". Secondly, you learn very little from having solely good things to happen to you, in this case, only reading masterpieces. Amazing books are the opposite of terrible books, as we all know, so therefore if bad books make the prose very choppy and characters 2d, good books would make the story flowy and characters like real people. Even though this might seem satisfactory on surface level, this prevents us from putting in the work to identify what makes it so superior! The point of reading is to both enjoy but most importantly, improve your knowledge. Lastly, bad books gives us the satisfying oppurtunity to judge. Judging a book and resisting to it's games trains the critics within us, whic is an important skill! However it is important to not dwell on the judgement for too long, because it is just pathetic to bask in the feeling of being better than someone else's work. If you read so far, thank you for finding this interesting enough! Just keep in mind that I do not write debate articles or reflectory essays a lot, so think of this as a shorter and rougher version of the former and latter. If you want to read something more interesting and arguably better, this is the link to the article I used! Source! I used this as a support for my own opinion, credits goes to " Elmer Bautista Gomez".