The Importance Of Reading Memoir

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Reading Memoir “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go,” wrote Theodor Seuss. The idea of reading is such a delitescent success factor. Many people don’t know the importance of reading and how it can help someone grow spiritually, mentally and physically. Reading has helped help me in coping with these different areas of my life through recent years. Throughout majority of my adult life reading hasn’t been a big part of my life and if I knew back then in my life what I know now I would have read more. Throughout the years I haven’t read much, but since recently getting back to reading I’ve become better overall and it is a hidden success factor that I will embrace for the rest of my life. Learning to read for me as a child was enjoyable. My patriarch would read to me every night before bed and he would also read books with pop up pictures that would make me giggle. I remember my father teaching me to read and having to pronounce each word syllable by syllable. I enjoyed books on the berenstain bears. There was one in particular that I remember reading over and over was The …show more content…
Reading helps me relax, especially after a long stressful day; it also helps me improve my social skills and probably reduce dementia in the future, who knows. My current feelings on reading are books written by Joyce Meyers. She is a Christian author that writes inspirational books that helps me with my everyday life. Now I am branching out by wanting to read books by different authors. I am interested on people thoughts and how they see things whether its books on biography, nature, fiction, non-fiction, drama, I am just interested in reading. Reading is fun, it helps with afflictions, becoming an autonomous learner and I love it. As W. Somerset Maugham said, “Reading was a joy, a desperately needed escape, I didn't read to learn, I was reading to

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