I truly do believe that you can learn from literature. You can learn how to maybe see feelings and how to react to them from literature or maybe learn a new lesson about life. It is hard for me to think about literature actually transforming your life. Maybe if you read it in the way that you do want to transform, so you look for they ways you can learn and transform from it. I think this too though is partly my fault. I don't read this way, so maybe that os why I can't understand it. I know we are supposed to learn how to live literature and learn that it is you, but I don't know if I can necessarily do that. Especially with poetry. Poetry is hard enough for me to get through when I actually find out the meaning of a poem I am so happy I found it and I am so sick of reading it I don't even think about applying it somehow to my life.
I still don't know what I thought about Lectio with Sonny Blues on Tuesday. I really think of it as a religious practice with the Bible. I don't think it is bad for people to do especially if you want to go very deep into your reading, but for me I feel that I will stick to just doing it with my Bible. I really did see the difference on how I understood Sonny Blues afterward. After reading it so many times I was able to understand it more and being able to hear everyone's thoughts on it. I will try it again in my life if I have the opportunity too because maybe I just put negative thoughts in my head and thats why I didn't fully embrace the activity.
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