REFLECTIVE PAPER

Reflective Paper

Reflective Paper

I was just an ordinary kid. All I did was, went to school and came back home. No one knew me, and the ones who did, for them was only a 'book worm'. Nonetheless, time passed, and I came to high school. I was always a very shy and introvert person. There was only one most prominent thing in my life: books. They all looked the same but had different colors. I was a bit apprehensive of them at first. Then I spoke to my mother, and it revealed on me that these thick looking books meant hours of homework. My mother was a very intelligent woman and she covered my apprehensions for books by telling me bedtime stories. I loved the idea of my mom reading me books by the bedside. It was amazing. This created a relationship between me and books. For some reason, I started reading them. I began with reading short story books and moved up to reading books of middle school level. These were novels on science, mystery, action, suspense and fiction. I liked my collection of books.

Reading took me to another world, a world that I would create in my own imagination. So reading was good because it helped me understand myself better. I gave meaning to someone else's words. My favorite book at the time was So You Want to be a Wizard. I picked it up because I liked the color and as I read it, I thoroughly enjoyed it. I think I enjoyed it so much because I could relate to the characters in the book. The kids in the book had wizardly powers, and they made me think maybe I too was extraordinary in some way. They inspired me so much, the characters, that I thought ...