Know what happened last weekend? I was rummaging through my house’s library …. A quaint one tucked under the staircase where you have to bend your head to squeeze into the furthest corner, and lo and behold, 20 volumes of TIME Life books on history which Daddy bought for me way back when I was in Primary Four. Yes, some forty odd years ago ….. and it brought back memories …..

Like how it’s so lovely to pore through each and every page of the book. Turning each page, savouring the feel of the paper, devouring every word, drinking in the awe and majesty of the pictures of ancient scrolls of China, the paintings of the Sistine Chapel, and the ruins of Greece ….. you are immediately transported to a world of your own.

Then I thought of today’s children. When information is so easily accessible. When it only takes a click, a touch, to be overwhelmed by images, text, sound. Are we having too much but knowing too little?