I’m a quiet and a little bit introverted “young man”, so some of my friends once considered me the one who loves reading. However, the truth is that I barely read. A few years ago, I tried to push myself into reading at least one book per month, but I gave up. I thought what stopped me from reading was the stress of school assignments and examinations given by my teachers in junior and senior high. I couldn’t and didn’t want to spend any of my leisure time reading anything. Instead, I would rather hang out with my friends or stay home playing computer games. Even though I personally don’t like reading, I still have the faith that the more books a person reads, the more we learn and improve physically and mentally.
Other than reading books, I prefer reading the world’s signs. I love observing; to me, this has been the best way for me to learn everything. Our world looks alive from our eyes that are full of imagination and expectation. Through the diversity of places, cultures, and people with different characteristics, knowledge becomes endless. What we could learn is not restrained in books already. As long as we hold the desire of learning, we could always gain something new and meaningful. For example, I am bad at communicating and interacting with others. Therefore, I learned how to get along with people I first meet by observing what my friends would do when they encounter someone they don’t know. The tiniest thing could show me how this huge world works. There are always surprises if you try to find them out.
Through this course, this semester, I guess I might have a big chance to grab my lost enthusiasm for reading. Definitely, reading won’t bring me any inconvenience or waste my time. Who knows, maybe I would turn into a books fanatic after that.
Jim, not like reading is not a sin, though we all know that reading is the core for learning academic language and language of communication in most areas of human transactions. But you might be very good at something that many others are not: organizing knowledge, information, and your understanding of the world by visualizing, imaging, rather than by words. This can be powerful for learning, sharing, and construct knowledge. Hope what we do this semester may arouse your interest. I hope~
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