Week 14 - “The more that you read, the more things you will know." Dr. Suess

Literacy is the ability people have to read and write. I love being able to read and write for many reasons. I love reading non-fiction and learning about people and there lives before me. We have the ability to learn so much from the past and most often it is right at our fingertips. I love learning facts about our world and peoples struggles and heartaches and what brought America to where it is today. Writing is an amazing gift in our world. The ability to save and hold on to memories of the past and record moments of great discovery.

Writing impacts my life in allowing me to record my life. There are so many things that I wouldn’t completely remember correctly if it wasn’t for my journal, and my ability to write and then read what I have wrote on a later date. I was just talking the other day with a friend how it is so funny to go back and read things that you wrote down when you were young. It’s amazing to be able to go back and see what was important to you at different moments of your life, and be able to laugh at the silly things you did when you were young, As well as record important moments or struggles your life and how you faced them.

Reading for pleasure is ultimately very important. It gives you the opportunity to escape from reading to learn to reading to enjoy and discover. I love reading to be able to escape from reality. To be able to experience a world completely made up and unreal. To discover different realms of imagination. Reading has the ability to remove stress from my life, and give me the ability to live through someone else’s life. It allows me to experience things I may never be able to accomplish or experience otherwise. Whenever I read something I really try and place myself in the characters position. This helps me to really discover what they are going through whether they are fictional or non-fictional characters. Reading and writing opens up many new doors of learning, and opens up a world of imagination and creation, and I absolutely love it.