Books:
The Greatest Gift
Shaira Adette L. Mapoy
Books are
written materials made by authors who have passion for writing and have the
power to imagine things. Books are made with different categories and genre so
that all people have the power to read the books that they are interested
about. Reading a book really takes a lot of your time; that is why readers are
known to be very hands on and very patient. Books are created for many reasons:
Entertainment, Religion, Studying, and more. But what is really the purpose of
books in our life? Are books really important?
In this generation
where technology continues to arise, it is very hard to have the courage and
patience to start reading a book, because most of the time, people do not
finish what they started, for they think that they are just wasting their time.
As technology flourishes, there are many apps that can question you on why
should you waste your time reading a book while there are many movies that do
not require a lot of time to finish. Technology questions you on why you should
finish a certain book when in fact, there are many summarized results about
that certain book in Google. Those are some of the reasons why technology
lessens the people who are into books, for technology mostly brings negative
effect to many. In reality, people nowadays waste their time scrolling and
watching through their social media accounts instead of gathering and craving
for knowledge.
The
more you read, the more knowledgeable and imaginative you become. Books are
full of knowledge and can test one’s ability of imagining situations that is
happening in the story. One purpose of books is that it helps us gain more
knowledge and can make our minds more creative. Most of the people who read
really want to escape the ordinary world and go to many extraordinary places.
Reading a book can bring us to different places especially when we really have
the power to imagine things that the author is trying to tell us. When we start
reading a book, we enter the world of the author and live a different kind of
life. As you go to another world, it gives you a magical experience and
especially a magical feeling. Books help us explore the world and give us the
extraordinary experience while reading and imagining things. Books make us feel
that the impossible feeling can be possible. It helps us feel the things that
we cannot feel in real life. As readers, we want to be fascinated and
entertained by the world the author creates and the way the characters live in
the magical world. Books make us feel that all of us have the power to do all
the things that we dreamed of even though we do not really live by it. Of
course, the key to developing good imagination skills is by reading a book you
are interested about, for reading a book the you do not like can lead you to
not being able to finish reading the
story. Make sure that you will read a book that you really like and that you
are really interested in.
Books also improve one’s ability to put yourself in
the shoes of others. It gives us the power to improve our empathy. A book has
certain characters and each of the characters has their own characteristics,
value, and point of view on things. Some of the characters definitely have
flaws and imperfections like all of us do. Some of the characters have their
own problems and by reading a book, you can put yourself in the shoes of those
characters and imagine what life that character may be living. By reading a
book, you know the specific feeling of a certain character about things. This
in return allows you to be more aware about the things that you will say to
other people so that your words will not cause pain in other peoples’ heart.
Books can make you understand the feeling of the people around you. It makes
you imagine what kind of life that certain character or a certain person may be
living despite their flaws and imperfections. Books have the power to teach
each and every reader to treat everyone right. Just like what Rebecca Solnit
said, a book is a heart that only beats in the chest of another. That means
that Books can make us feel what other people can be feeling too.
There are many readers who are trying to read
because they want to find themselves and they want to know what their own
purpose is here in this world. Reading a book mostly helps other people know
more about themselves. Books also help other people to know their purpose in
life while reading. Books can also be your guide in making decisions, finding
who you really are, discovering yourself and finding what is really your
purpose in life. Books can also be a source of motivation especially when you
finish reading a story that started with stating the characters problems and
challenges and ended happily. In reality, Life is full of challenges and
problems and a little motivation can really be a great help. Encouraging
yourself by thinking that those challenges are temporary and at the end you can
also live happily like that certain character did can be your daily motivation
to fight and live every day.
The things that are stated above are some of the
many advantages and purposes of reading a book. I want to take this opportunity
to persuade everyone who will read this blog to read a book, for it brings many
positive things in our life. It allows every one of us to imagine, explore, and
discover things with the help of those authors. Reading a book is a pleasure
for me because it helps me in finding the answers to every question I have. I
hope that you give those books a chance to change your lives too!
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