My Hobby : Reading

This hobby got started when I was a little girl. I liked reading novels, story books. But my parents didn't like that I read these types of books because they thought the most important thing and the best thing for me was to get good school results. And you know to get good results, you have to study hard and spend time on it. Reading would be a waste of time they thought. So I read books every night, secretly, when they had gone to sleep.

Now I read just about anything is available. Reading enables me to learn about so many things that I would otherwise not know. I learn about the wonders of the world, space travel, human achievement, gigantic whales, tiny virus and other fascinating things of our world.

The wonderful thing about reading is that I don't have to learn things the hard way. For example, I don't have to catch a disease to know it can kill me, I know the danger so I can avoid it. Also, I don't have to go deep into the jungle to learn about the tiger, I can read all aboout it in a book.

Books provide the reader with so much information and facts. They have certainly helped me in my daily life. I am better equiped to cope with life. Otherwise I would go about ignorantly learning things the hard way.

So I continue to read. Apart form being more informed about the world, I also spend my time profitably.

It is indeed a good hobby."