Benefits of Reading
Reading makes our moments meaningful
Why Does Reading Matter?
Yes! Reading matters a lot. It’s kind of double-edged sword. It’s not rocket science to comprehend the significance of reading books.
Reading habit ‘quietly’ improves one’s analytical skills in tandem with the focus on the facts and issues of reading materials.
The habit of reading would help readers to skim through a book or paper in a weekend time span.
However, the philosophy, the thoughts and contents of those reading materials would help readers to rivet and mull for days and weeks even after readers put it down after reading.
Bibliotherapy: Most Effective Stress Reliever
Human brain is not any nuclear reactor. To ensure effective functionality of human brain, it needs some planned disengagement and mediation.
The habit of reading can be psychological syrup of stress relief.
The habit of reading helps one to have sound sleep; maintain lower stress levels and higher self esteem.
Here, the last feature, i.e., higher self-esteem, is pivotal for anyone considering present pandemic time period.
In the literature of bibliotherapy, it has been reported that when one delves into reading, one’s brain’s neurological organ stimulates with the topic of reading contents.
Ceridwen Dovey in the New Yorker, shares that:
“Reading fiction makes me lose all senses of self, but at the same time makes me feel most uniquely myself.”
Reading Habit: Past, Present and Future
Sometimes I worriedly notice that trends of reading habit in 2020's are no longer associated with aims and pleasure as it was back in 2000's and 2010's.
When I was growing up in late 1990's in the capital of a country belonging to South Asia region, I have had at least the vibe to consider the habit of reading as a mean of intellectual recreation.
That time, reading habit was not intimidated by ‘SEGA’, PC Games (FIFA 99 and the Age of the Empire) and Mobile Phones.
Truly speaking, at that point in time (late 1990's and beginning of 2000's), the habit of reading was the stepping stone to escape from the thicket of academic study and monotonous exams.
In the time of Kindle, Nook and other e-book reader devices, it has become very easy for one to create virtual e-library with motley ranges of reading topics to delve into amazing journey of reading.
Sadly, in present time, most of us have been busy to churn out our pleasure feelings either in Xbox, Stadia, Netflix or in the apps like ‘Bumble’!
However, these visual entertainment apps and gadgets won’t facilitate us any interactively vivid experience of imagination. Only the habit of reading can instill such power of imagination.
This power of imagination through reading would help to activate the parts of human brain for better understand the surrounding world from a unique context.
Never Give Up the Habit of Reading
Well, the problem is not the entertainment gadgets or apps that deprive us from the habits of reading. The problem is us! We, ourselves, are responsible!
We have entwined ourselves into the meaningless tangles of ‘to-do-list’ of feeding update status and surfing of social networks.
We have turned ourselves into miserable personality too busy to read, too deviated to focus on reading and, appallingly failing to tap the benefits of reading.
I believe, there is still time to remedy the situation. I can confidently bet, the moment one comprehends the ‘cello of pleasure/benefits’ of reading, one would surely delves into reading more and more!
So, let’s not give up reading; let’s encourage others and ourselves to read.
