The Importance Of Reading

Do you often read a book and like it? I guess that many young people may say “No, I don’t. It’s boring for me.” In fact, the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology said in the newspaper that people who read books have gradually decreased year by year. I tried to read many kinds of books in this summer: foreign novels, Japanese ones and so on because I thought that reading books would have some effects on me. Then I noticed that there are some good merits to reading books through my experience.

First of all, people can increase their knowledge by reading because books include a lot of information, for example, kanji, idioms, proverbs, words in English and so on. If they suddenly came across a word which they didn’t know in the book, they would need to research its meaning so that they can continue to read it. Have you ever gone through such a situation? If so, you can get opportunities to improve your vocabulary and you should do this action and repeat! As a result of these actions, they will have more information than before when they finish reading it. What we know is that much knowledge is very useful for us in order to write a report on business or an essay, and speak in public.

Secondly, reading books give us calm time. As for me, one day I quarreled with my father, so I was irritated by that incident. However, I forgot about quarreling when I unconsciously started to read my book, and my feelings had been calmed very much before I knew it. I guess that we can enhance our concentration, and forget unpleasant feelings by reading. In addition, many people feel stress or uncomfortable owing to have a lot of trouble in their works, lives and relations in these days. It’s very important for us to spend time without stress because stress heavily damages our hearts and bodies, but in comparison with it, relaxation helps to keep our good health. If you have these problems, you should read books for your health.

Finally, reading books increases people’s imaginations. They imagine magnificent backgrounds, feelings of the characters, and many scenes which were written in detail by an author in their minds when they read each sentence. In other words, many authors want to tempt them into the world of their books so that they definitely tell their opinions or thoughts to readers and give us pleasure. In consequence, many readers can obviously improve their ability of imagination and understand author’s views. These effects give us rich expressions and ability for widely thinking, and I expect those effects to be useful when we talk or write about something. Besides, the more readers can enhance their imagination, the more enjoyable reading becomes for them!

Therefore, if some researchers compare people who like to read with others, they may tell that readers result in having more knowledge than others. I can actually say that what we read in books will surely provide some good benefits in our future because I could experience to improve myself, in particular about handling feelings. I could recognize and understand difficult words in the newspaper more than before. Recently we’re able to meet many kinds of people who have various fields of profession because of plentiful transportation. I think that we need to have many kinds of knowledge to communicate with them. Books can be carried around easily, so people can read them wherever they want to read, that is to say, you can get new information anywhere, for these reasons, I’d like you to read many different books that will be useful for your lives in the future.