Why reading is always a positive thing to do

 When I was young, I was an avid reader. I wouldn't say I'm passionate about it, but I did make a point to always read when I'm free.

As I grow older, and the more books I've read. It felt like the things I've read is useless. Since I'm just reading it, not applying it.

So I gave up reading. Until lately I've always brought a book with me when I'm outside.

Occasionally, I would flip through the book, read a couple passages and stop.

But, that action lead to something positive. When I'm going on my day, sometimes a thought of the passage in the book would come to mind, and I would sometimes think about it, and think of how to apply in my life.

This is one case of why reading is always positive. Another case would be, when I'm deep in the rabbit hole of watching porn. Sometimes passages of some books I've read previously would one to mind. For example, the book "habits of effective people" mentions about doing something within your locus of control. And that thought reminded me that I have control over my action. So, that lead to me stopping. Well, not really the one that stops it, but it did help me stop.

Another case would be when I'm at work. Often times things don't go my way, like I want to work on a big project, but I couldn't. So my locus of control tells me to quickly go finish my current task, so I can work on other stuff.

My point is that, reading is always positive. Even if you just read one paragraph a day, that paragraph can linger on your mind, and pop up when you're bored, and sometimes it could be change the course of your action to something positive.

It also doesn't matter if you don't apply it, well it still doesn't matter, but sometimes the thought would come to your mind, and you would use it that would benefit you.