How Does Reading Affect My Life

My life has never revolved around writing, reading, but definitely not writing. To be honest, I’m not even sure when I learned to read and write, all I remember is the fact that I had the ability. In the first grade, I remember being in a church youth group where they wanted the high schoolers to do a play but wanted one younger kid to be in it. The age they had in mind was a kid who was in upper elementary or middle school, but my mom told them to let me try anyways. They decided to let me join the play, because they were impressed by how well I could read, I even helped the high schoolers memorize their lines and whispered them to them throughout the play. I’m not sure when I developed the ability, but I know people were always impressed by how well I could read and write for how young I was. It seems like I was always reading when I was younger. I’d read entire book series, like; The Magic Treehouse, Charlie Bone, and Hank the Cowdog, which were a few of my …show more content…
I think it came a little more naturally to me than it did to other people, for the most part. My reading preferences have changed as I’ve gotten older, just like any other kind of preference, but the fact that I enjoy to read hasn’t. My family had a small influence on my literacy skills, but it was most likely the fact that they had such high levels of pride in my skills that made me enjoy reading so much. It would make me feel special when my parents would say that I was their smart child, it’s still true. Literacy was definitely more important to me when I was younger than it is now, as I got older I got used to the fact that I could do it and didn’t get the same sense of accomplishment that I did when I was in elementary school. Being literate is still an important factor in life, and while it definitely is taken for granted, I’m fortunate that I’m not one of the 32 million adults in America that do not have the privilege of being