My Hobby Reading Essay

In elementary school, I struggled learning to read. I had no motivation or desire to learn to read. I did not like reading and reading did not like me. Every day I would beg to get out of practicing and would shed a river of tears from my small eyes. I would not read and no one could make me. My brain could not and would not focus on the lessons being taught. I hated everything about reading and writing. I did not understand the purpose of reading when I could just watch a movie and it did not help that every book at my reading level was basic and boring. TV was the greatest thing in my life since Dr. Pepper. I could not have cared less about Dick and Jane or One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish than I did during that time. I would have rather …show more content…
Worlds like I had never imagined. Worlds with monsters the sizing of buildings. Worlds with toys that came alive. Worlds with mermaids and pirates. I never felt alone in my world because I had other worlds to travel to at a moment 's notice. I had my books and my sister to turn to. I did not have to listen to my brothers plan how to win a video game. I could read of a prince who won the princess. On a bad day, I could escape to a far off land and could take on somebody else’s problems. Character’s problems were always easier to deal with than my own. Reading has helped me get through days where I just felt like giving up. Whenever my brother would bully me, I could get lost in a book where he did not exist. I did not have to listen to him tell me that my dancing sucked or I should stop being a daddy’s girl. I could run away to my books. My books saved me from my big, bad wolf and I could not have asked for a better super hero. Somehow, books changed my life and I do not know what I would do without …show more content…
I am more likely to be caught reading during class than secretly watching Netflix on my phone. I do read more books than I watch movies. I do own more books than the number of movies I have seen. I am okay with the fact that I can turn to books when I can not turn to a friend. When school stresses me out, I can relax by reading a story of a hero in a different world. I am more likely to quote a book than I am to tell you who won an Oscar last year. I can name more books than actors. I do not understand how anyone could not like reading or could say they like watching movies more than reading books. Reading allows you to be in the book. When you turn the page, you become the main character. Every punch they feel, every heartbreak ever written happened to you, not the character in a book. You won the Hunger Games. You are the chosen one. You saved Olympus. You are the hero in the story. All because you read a book and I found my will to