The habits we are forced to inculcate from when we're kids are the biggest impacts on us in our adult life. Our parents push us towards particular directions, and most of the time, we allow it to happen. And in almost all cases, people are happy with what they turn out to be.
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For me, the one habit that made a huge part of who I am today is reading.
From when I was five or six years old, my mother and all her friends used to take their kids to the nearby children's library, and make sure they were an active part of all the programs that were conducted there. Every summer, we had a contest, where all the kids wrote down each book they'd read over the summer, and the ones that read the most would get some kind of exciting prize. I never won a prize, but it did push me to read as much as possible, and that was the starting of a wonderful habit that I'm proud of even today.
Reading changes the way you think about things; it makes your mind deeper, while simultaneously stretching it wide open, further than you ever knew it would go. It exposes you to sides of stories that you'd never imagine yourself in. It puts you directly in another person's shoes; someone with such a different life and such a different way of thinking. Yet, as long as you're reading, the protagonist is someone you relate to. Someone you'd vouch for. That's such a beautiful thing to be able to experience! Each character that you live with impacts you in a way that changes you forever. Each book opens your mind just a little bit more.
I feel sorry the most for those who equalize books with movies; they have no idea what they're missing! Books allow us to form a movie within our own minds. Books narrate a character’s thoughts, their feelings which mean so much more than just actions. They are what make all the difference between right and wrong. They are what show you that the world isn't all coloured in just black or white. They are what open your eyes to the gray areas, and I think the gray areas are much better places to be.
Books show you different stories, letting you pick which parts you want to for your very own. Books make you think, hard and deep, and decide answers for yourself whose questions you would never have thought of yourself. Books draw your attention to detail telling why every little deviant from the normal is important. Books make you think so much more about simple, natural things in your life that wouldn't have otherwise caught your attention. Indeed, the impact that books make on us is one that is beautiful and everlasting.
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