Literature And Literature: My Relationship With Literature

My Relationship with Literature

I am a self-proclaimed bibliophile. I have always loved books and reading as far as I can remember. The very first book I purchased with my own savings was Nancy Drew Files. I was eight then. I used to love spending my free time in the library as a kid, browsing different books of different genre. Over the years, I’ve considered reading as both luxury and a necessity.

My relationship with literature has stayed strong despite the changes I’ve gone through in life as an adult. My interest with different genres have expanded over the years from reading mystery books as a kid to reading thriller books as a teenager to now reading political and financial books as an adult.

I’ve always been fascinated with literature.

My hatred towards my biological mother didn’t help. When I became a teenager, I realized that I needed an outlet to let some of my anger go. I then turned to writing. I started writing on a journal when I was 11. I have written over a hundred poems. When I became a freshman at 12, I started typing things in my computer and would save it there. I would pour my heart out each time and I would re-read it later on. I realized that that helped me a lot in not only overcoming anxiety but also in realizing that hatred won’t get me anywhere. The most important thing I learned from this was that the things that have happened to me and how I was being treated weren’t my fault. My own writing process has always been about how I felt and how I look at things from my point of view. Writing my thoughts freely without worrying about anyone critiquing what I had to say. Being in college, however, requires that I change my style of writing up a bit. When I am writing for school papers like essays and thesis, I always have to pay more attention to how I’m writing and always considering what the reader might say about the style of writing and its content. Oftentimes the thought of making a mistake stresses me out, but the thought of deadlines normally would push me to keep going. Half of the time I would find academic writing somewhat