Essay About Love Reading

Learning to Love Reading I can hardly recall most of my childhood. I have had more concussions and brain trauma than I would like to admit, and it can pose many challenges; one of those challenges is remembering things from my past. This being said, there are key events in my life including reading and writing that stick out. I had never been too keen on reading or writing, and I was the type of kid that would never read or write on my own time. I either had to have it assigned to me, or if I really felt that it would benefit me. If I had to choose which of the two that I prefer, I would have to say reading. Even if a person does not like to read, they would be lying if they said at some point in their life reading had never done anything for them. I began reading at a much younger age than writing so we will start the story there. My first ever memory of reading started when I was in preschool. I want to say I was about five or six years old and my parents surprised me with a phonics early reading set. I was not entirely sure what to think at first, but once I had read the very first book in the set I was hooked. It had seemed like a …show more content…
I tried to mature more and act more like an adult. It was nearing the end of the year and the final book we were reading was The Great Gatsby. I tried to go into the reading with an open mind and enjoy it. I had my doubts at first due to the lack of science fiction elements, but for once in my life I wanted to enjoy a book for what it truly is. A work of art. Going into it with an open mind was the best decision I had ever made. I had completely forgotten about all of the bad books I had read and tried to recall the positives in them and not focus as much on the negatives. The Great Gatsby was the light at the end of the tunnel. It opened my mind and taught me to appreciate everything which led into my senior