A Proverb: Necessity is the Mother of Invention

This proverb was declared by Plato at his book, Republic. The main idea for me is inhabiting, visceral, paved, and groundbreaking at the start. When you asked me why I am still reading until now? Because reading is my necessity, not only to find some invention, but span profundity the basic of my life.

My mother at Menggung Village, Central Java ever said to me, "seldom man who really avid reading like you." She's saying has given me courage to be vast reader every time, everywhere. Although, I've been slow reader, deliberate reader, that takes me need more time to understand. But in reading, I plan to go long. Each word move me to others.

Reading and writing are the most focus of my life. They're sustaining me much from ribald world. It's about creating those lives and stories, rather than waiting someone else to make them real. Jessica Andrew, the writer of Saltwater ever said: "[when] you're trying to make art and working lots of jobs and not getting anywhere. It's demoralizing. Doing lots of DIY stuff with small presses really keeps you going and reminds you that writing is meaningful." With that, definitely you should not have to prove any shit.

Source Image: The New York Times

Many efforts to make what necessity in writing was invention. Richard Powers read more than 120 single-volume books about trees to make his book The Overstory (2018). Powers is a America novelist who focus on scientific effect, neuroscience, chemical engineering, genetics, actuarial environmentalism, and modern technology. The Overstory had talked about the wisdom of trees. Trees like men too, they are communal. Powers not only drawn growing the trees in the pile of 100-odd photographs, but also he recorded the evolution of technology. It splits into 4 parts: roots, trunk, crown, and seeds. 

"What was really lovely about doing the research this time was that it didn't feel like research. It felt like literally a walk in woods. I did end up reading copiously. I read more than 120 single-volume books about trees," said Powers to The Guardian.

He did as ecowarriors or might are called  to eco-writers do as Keats wrote: scenery is fine, but human nature finer. Beside Powers there are many names in this stream like: Peter Wohlleben, Cormac McCarthy, Margaret Atwood, Jonatahan Franzen, etcetera.


Happy Sunday,

Isma