Autobiography of Myself as a Reader

Everyone has a past of themselves as a reader. Some people have never liked to read, where as other people have read just about every book that there is. Over the past few weeks, I've learned more about myself as a reader and what I liked and absolutely hated. I've talked to the people who know me best including my parents and have personally considered every book I've read that I remember ever being important for me to grow as a reader.

I think that because of the fact that I read so much as a child, I became more imaginative and thoughtful. I learned about other people and how they lived and how things impacted them. Not only did I learn about people and their lives, I learned empathy for other people. Because of this, I now know that everybody is different and that it's okay to be yourself. Personally, I believe that because I learned these things, I was taught to think outside of the box.

When you compare positive and negatives through many peoples reading experiences, you find that when you are forced to read something, you tend not to enjoy it quite as much. I make this assumption because when I was younger, I read almost everything. As I grew as a reader, throughout my upper levels in elementary, I tended not to like as much of what I was reading. Since I never could find books that I truly loved, I stopped reading and looking for books. Personally, I believe that people fall out of reading as they are forced to read more and more as they grow up.

I think that many peoples experiences of falling out of reading suggests that it may be impossible to create the "perfect" reading program. As a more advanced learner at my elementary school and middle school, I always hated a lot of the things that they made me read. They were never anything that I would choose for myself. This is another reason why you cannot make the "perfect" reading program. Everyone has different interests and tastes. No one is the same.

After doing this research about myself as a reader, I conclude that I loved reading as a young child but as I became older, I fell out of reading. I started disliking books and I had a very hard time finding books that I truly enjoyed. I realized that I need to start looking for books again and that I need to change my reading habits and look at reading from a different perspective. Overall, I think that learning about myself as a reader is going to benefit me in the future in finding books that I like and things that I should stay away from.