As a child I loved reading story books. Then it was usually tagged as tales of the moonlight and this was to portray how our grandparents would always like to gather all their grandchildren at night when the moon is out, to tell them stories. These stories can be historical, fairytales and so much more. It was always nice reading those stories and putting myself in that position of listening to someone read out the words even when I’m very sure I was the one reading it all to myself. It just made me enjoyed the story more and help me find my lessons easily.
Yes, I usually give lessons learnt from every book I read back then. The idea was, no matter how a story was, there is always a lesson behind it that the author wants me to learn or that I could learn. So while reading those story books, I always read it with a mind of finding a lesson that I could learn for myself. Because of that, it gave me purpose to want to keep reading books. Those random story books. I grew so fond of reading them and I remember back then my sister loved writing her own stories. She had this book she would write down different stories she made up and it was always nice to read them.
These days, books are not exactly the things I go to first when I’m interested in doing something with a spare time. I actually stopped reading books when I got into senior school and I can’t even remember why. But as I grew older, I started getting fond of reading self help books and that’s still for the same reason I enjoyed reading story books. I love books that dare me to learn something that I can always apply to my day to day life. A book that can give me more reason to improve in different areas of my life. I love books that develop me even without me knowing. I’m very selfish of the things I read and that is because I still have that mind of learning something from anything I take my time to read.
Recently, I have started growing this lukewarm attitude towards reading books again and I don’t like it. Maybe it’s because I’m not exposed to so many physical books or maybe it’s because I’m biased of online books but I want to do better at reading different books and rekindle that attitude of developing myself through books in different ways as much as it’s possible.
I’m not sure why you read books but for me, this is one major reason that always keeps me coming for more. I noticed that the moment I tried reading book for just fun, I lost the interest in it and that was because I saw a lot of persons who just read books for fun and to prove they have read so many books back then and I tried it and lost that touch. So, I’ll encourage you to know what piques your interest to always want to read books and focus on that. If it’s for fun then stick to that. Anyways, you will still be developed as long as you keep reading. So the goal is to keep that interest for reading alive.
Thank you for reading through. ❤️