Why do we read

Why do We Read?

Well, everyone keeps saying, Read  Read and Read. But Why????  Why in the first place do we need to read.  This one questions baffles our mind, and especially a students’ mind.

The reason/s to read can differ from person to person. People read for fun, for pleasure, for knowledge, to know about happenings in and around their city/country. Reading can be a pastime for many and a source of studies or research for others. Moreover, when we talk about reading, we usually mean reading for reasons other than studies. Academic reading forms a different section altogether. There we have no choice but to read our A B C’s of Physics and Chemistry, and pass the exams.
Whether you agree or not reading always proves helpful, short term or long term.

Benefits of Reading

•    Reading helps learn new words.
Reading fiction/non fiction familiarizes you with new words. You tend to see the usage of many words you would never have heard. Hence, you improve your vocabulary.
•    Reading helps you speak well.
If you read good stuff, you tend to use good vocabulary is speech. A good reader is one who keeps his mind open, notice new words, grammar, syntax and thus implements it his own speech.
•    Reading stimulates your brain.
A well read person would have a better IQ than a non reader. You learn more things, knowledge increases, thus increasing your capability.
•    Reading brings you closer to life

When you read other people’s experiences, adventures etc, you get to know what all happens in this world; good or bad. You can relate to the misery of other people. Reading helps you empathise.

The above list can be endless. As a student, sit and ponder what would happen, had you not been reading?? The results could have been disastrous.

To further this discussion, Emily Dickinson the famous writer had a grand sense of the readersinglequotes motive: "There is no frigate like a book," she wrote, "To take us lands away." She understood that words on the page held power wildly beyond proportion to what they seemed to be. She ended her famous poem about books this way: "How frugal is the chariot/ That bears a human soul!". Reading has always been a venerated task. Many poets and authors have written on the importance of books.

To conclude, we can say, the more you read, the more confident you will feel. Reading broadens your spectrum of knowledge. It gives you the courage to participate in any kind of discussion. You get to know facts, current affairs, stories, experiences, gives you academic knowledge with an edge over others.

Reading lets you LIVE life.

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