WHY READING?

Since I was a child everywhere I went adults (teachers, relatives, parents...) used to recommend me and other children reading books. They said: "Reading is an (un) excellent exercise and you must read more than you do. Nowadays children watch TV too much. It doesn't help to improve your mind. On the contrary, it makes people ignorant!"

Today I think they were right although maybe those weren't (wasn't) the best words and the best way of encourageing children to read, and even more, to like it. To be sincere I'm not hooked on this activity but I like reading a book from time to time, especially on holidays. I've discovered by myself many things that make me enjoy it:

First of all, I learn so much! I choose books about different topics (topycs): health, history, recipes, novels,...and it's even better doing it in a foreign languaje, although it takes more time and you have to be constantly finding out the meaning of a word or an expression, etc. Afterwards you are able to apply in your daily life some of the things you've learned.

Furthermore, it's un activity that can be made anywhere: for example, many people make use of trips by bus, underground, etc. And at the same time it helps not to get bored.

But what I really find exciting is that it makes you feel better if you are sad, it helps you to relax and to forget your worries and you can imagine for a while that there is a world that has been created only for you, and nobody else can go in there, it's only yours (your's), like a dream.