The Supreme Architect

There are several things that decide a buying. I am talking about buying books. Once in a classroom of adult boys and girls of about eighteen or more years of age, i put the question of eliciting their response about buying books. So many hands went up when i had asked them whether they had bought any books in a book-shop. As i narrowed down the point of my knowing i began seeing the raised hands deplete. I pruned or re-phrased my question to know whether any of them bought any book without the book being suggested by any source, like prescribed text piece, recommended by elders or friends, a popular best seller, a much advertised one or something that was the need of the hour. I hardly came across any hoisted hand dangling in the air afore me. The question was a tricky one as it tried to find out the act of voluntary choosing of one in being a book-consumer.

What decides a book-buying? With my very little experience as a buyer of books, all i can suggest is that a supreme force that is beyond the grasp of any earthly perception. I have never felt sorry for choosing any book. I often go through the first page of any book that describes a little about the writer as well as the book. On all occasions i feel an urge in me to choose the book in prospect of being bought. There are occasions that i left the book-shop, after spending several minutes, without buying even a single book. And, there are occasions that i chose books in a matter of seconds and left the stores instantly. For these two contrasting behaviour, i believe only chance can answer. I pray to that supreme force, a Deist term i believe, to confer the ever fierce flame of desire to buy books burn in me.