Pebble # 9 # A phenomenal daddy by Grace.

THAYIL VARUGHESE GEORGE is the passport name of my loving dad by grace. He is an amazing personality beyond age and time. He is an engineer in SWCC in Saudi Arabia. People used to ask him when he flies down on leave; “Joy Uncle, why do you read all these books even then you also have a job, good qualification?”Hello, by the way my dad is a voracious reader of different genres: General knowledge, fiction, religious and self help books, banking and investment books, health, cooking, technology, employment news……… let me save space by parking the long list.This point of time, let’s ask ourselves do we really read in this age of 3G giving way to 4G and also when we talk about virtual world and cloud computing?When was the last time we walked into a book store to smell the books and to flip through pages? Market is throwing us electronic books from we have to choose by.Today If I say that as a coach I have trained about several thousands (12, 975 candidates in Tata Consultancy Services alone) I would completely give credit to my reading. (Excuse me these days I admit I am really engaged with assignments after assignments).Coming back to Dad’s response, he replied to the person who questioned him “I read because I need to grow, I need to learn from the goodness and mistake of others. Why must I wait for a mistake to happen to me, let me learn how to avoid it in advance? I need to invest my time for a worth while cause, that’s why I read”
Let me tell you friends reading will help you grow. The knowledge you acquire is power, even today I quote from the reading excerpts which I have read and wrote in grade 9.Dad’s reading gifted him with sheer will power and faith in life and himself. He is always current. He is a Wikipedia in health. He is a practical man who is perspicacious.