This is not about seas, oceans, rivers, or any natural or artificial forms of water.
By the way, don’t you agree that artificial rain feels fake in movies, but real in books? Or am I the only one who feels that?
But why wouldn’t you agree?
Don’t you use your senses more deeply when reading than watching?
Well, I do.
Imagine the difference; instead of taking things for granted in a movie, think of how your mind creates a world of its own while reading. It has many functions to perform throughout the reading episode. It reads, listens, talks, colours, breathes, moves, builds, plants, and does even more creative things.
Hopefully now you get my point.
Now back to ‘deep’, where else can we use it?
Well, what just crossed my mind is books, or literary works in general.
Sometimes we say: it was a deep book. This is either because we understand nothing … or because it moves us deeply.
Honestly, if I don’t understand a book, this means I found it dull, obscure, but never deep.
But, may I make a confession?
One day after reading a book I found it… different, and decided, for the first time, to leave a comment.
What do you expect I wrote?
“That was a deep book.”
To this day, I have no idea how I linked ‘deep’ to a story that was, for me, simply different.
How annoying and embarrassing!
Ever since, I’ve been thinking twice before using ‘deep’ to describe a book.
Throughout my reading, I’ve found that when a book moves you, it doesn’t necessarily mean crying buckets, dreaming happily at the ending, or grabbing the dictionary to search up most of its terms.
It’s more about the meanings, the voice, and perhaps the message of the work. The elements that urge you to think, to learn, or to understand things you have’t known before.
In other words, it not just about reading catchy content, but about drawing lessons from it.
With hope and peace,
Nahla
Pure and Simple 