Reading In My Life

I’ve always been an avid reader. When I was in elementary school, my mother would take my brother and I to the library every week to pick out books. I would take the books to school and read them all in one day. I loved reading so much that my teachers would call home and tell my parents that I was reading my library books during class instead of my textbooks. Reading has always been a major part of my life. I used to aspire to become an author. I even wanted to become an editor at one point. I used to make daily household newspapers and magazines for my entire family to read and enjoy. My strong love for reading certainly came in handy during my freshman year of high school.

After taking the literacy survey I asked my dad why he thought reading was important. He gave me a look that said I’ve told you this a million times and said, “Reading is the key to success.” This is a common truth. However, the real question is, if reading is so necessary, then what can I do to master it. After twenty-one years of life I cannot say that I know all there is to know about reading and writing, but I can say that through my experiences I have learned to love reading and it has made all the difference.

The ability to read allows for education, enjoyment, imagination, and understanding. With literacy you can go anywhere: the correct path on the highway, a made up kingdom, or the center of an atom. Reading is not in jeopardy, but rather will remain an essential part of our lives for the next several decades, if not centuries. Reading has proved to be a durable form of entertainment for centuries, however there will likely be some adjustments to how we approach the activity in the near future.

I believe reading is fundamental to a person’s growth. To me, the importance of reading is to help better understand the world around me and have success in life. I feel

We all know reading is boring, time consuming, and compulsory. All though, most kids would agree with that statement, some may disagree. Some can say that if one does not read they can lose knowledge and become less smart. If you don't read there can be consequences for stopping. Reading is valuable because it gives readers the power to escape, to maximize their potential, and to strengthen their mind.

As a kid I used to read a lot and my family use to read to me. Reading was my favorite thing to do, but as I got older I got out the habit of reading. I stopped reading because there were a lot of distractions, such as watching TV, and being on my cell phone all the time. Dr. Seuss once said, “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more you learn, the more places you’ll go.” I absolutely love that quote it inspires me and motivates me so much. I have so many early reading memories, school reading memories, and some reading obstacles that I have had to overcome, all influencing my current approach to reading.

Reading will help to people to think deeply, to open our mind with new style of thinking and sometimes to change our whole life which is to good ways, to get knowledge, to be happy and to self-reflect. But before I go there, I want to share with you of my personal story first, So I was born in Uzbekistan and I grew up there. At the age of 7 I started reading books, at that time I was in first grade. My every teacher used to say always to us how reading is really important thing and we will need it in the future for our life until we die. But, you know that for majority of the kids, they don’t care about reading, which is like me, that was at that time of course not now. Because I was like that I never interested in reading, especially books like other kids.

By the time that I was twelve, I discovered that I love to read. It is the best pass time that I could find to do. Every time I open up a book it's as if I'm in my own world, a place of bliss. Like I'm watching a movie in my head but I'm the director. I find it easier to read in complete silence that way my thoughts can echo out much further and louder. One of the things that I usually do is stop in the page that I'm reading in and start asking myself questions and try to foreshadow what I might believe will happen at the end.

There once was a time when I felt liberated. A time when reading was an adventure, where I lived so many different lives, and each was refreshing. I remember the dim light of the hallway spilling into my bedroom as my dad would sit outside my bedroom door, reading. He read all sorts of stories, and each he made come to life with his voice, each of the characters with a unique timbre, and my siblings and I hung on every word. I remember the first time I ever heard Harry Potter, which was one of these times. My father would begin using a British accent when narrating, and as he proceeded in dialogue, he would use voices that suited the character, a higher pitched girlish voice for Hermione, and a monotoned disinterested voice for Severus Snape.

I have always excelled in academics, but my strongest point was reading, and comprehension. I loved to read as a child, and that has stayed with me throughout life. I’m happy that I had such a love for reading at a young age, as it has helped me immensely in my secondary education, and will probably expand into university too.

Reading is a great way to learn without being taught. It can teach you how to spell and even write. Over the years I have respected reading more and more. I first started reading in elementary school, High school has been a lot easier, and reading at home has been a challenge for me. Reading has improved who I am as a student.

When one turns the pages of a novel, are they reading printed pages or exploring the depths of expression and adventure. Growing up in a house of book worms, reading has had a big impact on my life and my learning process. Being adopted from Russia, I was blessed with the opportunity to have better education, learn to love writing, and better my reading with my families help.

Unlike most people my age, I enjoy a good book. From the classics we read as children to the older, more mature books we are required to read in high school, a good book can take us places that we have never imagined going. In a way, books transport me out of time-into our past or somewhere we aim to go one day. I believe that reading can and has positively affected me in my life.

We are alone when we don’t read. Lots of people read as a hobby. But have people ever thought of the lifelong benefits of reading? Reading has many lifelong benefits; therefore, reading is very fundamental, reading can make some people calmer, and a brain can stay sharp.

Reading is quite an important subject, and it is involved in my life every single day, but,