Lisa Ray Instagram – ′′ I’ve read a lot of books, but I forgot most of them. But then what is the purpose of reading?” This was the question a pupil once asked his Master. The Master didn’t reply at that time. After a few days, however, as he and the young pupil sat by a river, he said he was thirsty and asked the boy to get him some water using an old dirty old sieve that was there on the ground. The pupil flushed, as he knew it was a request without any logic. However, he couldn’t contradict his Master and, taken the sieve, he began to accomplish this absurd task. Every time he immersed the sieve in the river to pull up water to bring to his Master, he couldn’t take even a step towards him that already in the sieve there wasn’t even a drop left in the sieve. He tried and tried dozens of times but, although he tried to run faster from the shore to his Master, the water kept passing through all the sieve holes and was lost along the way. Tired, he sat next to the Master and said, ′′ I can’t get water with that sieve. Forgive me Maestro, it’s impossible and I failed in my job ′′ ′′ No, ‘ replied the old man smiling – you didn’t fail. Look at the sieve, now it’s good as new. The water, filtering from its holes has cleaned it up ′′ ′′ When you read books – the old Master continued – you are like a sieve and they are like river water ′′ ′′ It doesn’t matter if you can’t hold in your memory all the water that they make flow in you, because books anyway, with their ideas, emotions, feelings, knowledge, truth that you will find between the pages, will clean up your mind and spirit, and they will make you a better and renewed person. This is the purpose of reading “. from Anna Rita Montinaro,…