The Importance Of Reading

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Because I know Evolution is real. The fragment of a sentence just read is irrelevant to the entire literacy narrative. Personally, reading is a challenge. Reading requires the reader to sit and be still for a length of time. Being submerged in a southern American culture, one may find it hard to make such time for reading; because, the yard needs mowed, football to watch, beer to drink, church to attended, wife to please, friends to entertain, quotas to meet, cars to fix, and toilets to break. As the child grows from developmental stages into stages of self-awareness the topic of reading usually arises. As the child grows in mental-awareness and the basic principles of pattern recognition begins. From pattern recognition comes letter recognition, …show more content…

There was a time in my life called high school that forsook reading. As a child before high school reading was followed by a reward. As a youth reading was followed by success or failure. As a high-schooler the reading disappeared, because the reward disappeared, and the success or failure disappeared. One of the only people who pushed for me to read as a high schooler was my pastor, who encouraged us to read a chapter of the bible daily, which I learned does have a reward to it. There was a new form of reading that I did learn in high school called notation, but that does not get you anywhere in life, besides the ability to hum a tune correctly. Nevertheless, I am quite sure I did not finish a single book in high school. Then college came around, reading went from scarcely happening to a daily action. The first book that came to me after high school was “Systematic Theology” by Wane Grudem, this is the thickest book I have ever read, and the book is wrote like a text book. “Systematic theology” is still uncompleted but I read a chapter a week. I quickly learned that if I was going to pass my college classes I had to put the effort forth of reading text books. Textbooks take time, I learned to dig out vocabulary words and underline key phrases that was essential to understand the material. Outside of college, I found a passion for reading Christian literature, finding the bible to be the most pivotal book of my life. Reading changed from a torture device to a life giving resource. Reading became inspirational, humbling, and eye-opening; it greatly impacts my daily life. Reading is now the ability to come and sit in the mind of someone who is either dead or not present with me now, and listen to their emotions, inner thoughts, and

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