They say “When you open a book, you open a new world”. Well, who cannot agree with this? Books have become inevitable to mankind. For most of us, it is part of our everyday lives. To me, books are one of the basic necessities of life and it is also one of my life’s simple pleasures. A book is like a companion, be it a baby’s bedtime story, a toddler’s picture book, a child’s comic book, a teen’s young fiction or our very own academic books. I remember this incident when one day I was so angry with my Mother for the silliest reason. Well, she says that it was a part of growing up! Somehow to keep up my anger and not wanting to talk to her for the rest of the day, I settled down into my bed with a book in hand. I did not go down for dinner and thought I was punishing my mom by doing it. To my shock, I was reading a short story of an orphan child, a child deprived of food, shelter and more than anything love. Somewhere it said, ‘love of God is love of Mom’. Well, it was like a message God sent.
I let go of my false ego and quickly went down and hugged my Mom. It didn’t seem that she was upset or angry with me. Later that night, I sat wondering if I had not read that book, eventually I would have been sitting there with a false ego and brooding over silly things and making a fool out of myself. It was like I was suddenly enlightened, books for me are in a sense messages sent by God.
Today, I believe my personality, attitude, behavior, knowledge and thinking are built on the books I have read. I am sure I would despise a life without books I must say that Books Built the home and mind and person
