Myself as a Reader

As a student  reading is a part of  my everyday  life.  Reading is essential not just to pass the exams but also  to add  somethin g in your  knowledge or understanding.  The ability to read is an indication that  a person is  a literate  citizen of  his  country.

                But reading is not only  in the ability to read words, you  also have to understand what you read.  When reading your main purpose is to get someth ing from what you are reading and to achieve this you have  to under stand the te xt  first.  As what reading  means  it is    a process of decoding symbols for the intention of constructing  or deriving meaning. 

                  I   know  students like me have gone in a stage of  diffi culties in reading especially   during the first stage of learning  how  to read.i  started learning how to read a an early age and I learned how to read when I was six.  In that stage  I learned   to construct very simple sentences  because of reading.  I remember  seeing my sister reading   her   grade five text books would really make me wonder how can she finish reading one of the stories bec ause at that time the short stories written in that  book really look long for me as a beginner  and I  am afraid I  couldn’t  do  it  in the future. But then as time  pass  I  have realized  that  there is nothing to be a fraid of  and I find it really fun during my elementary days.  

When I got to high school  I got this fear again   when  my  english teacher required us to read one book every  grading period. So I try reading one.  I start with the Nancy Drew  series and I find it interesting.  During my first  year in high school I always find time to go to the library and read some books.  Honestly speaking I’m not really  inclined in  English  and I became a busy person  as years goes by that’s why during the rest of my years in high school  was not able to do all those reading stuff I‘ve done in the library when I was a first year student.    But then  I still find time to read books.  During my third year and fourth year I engaged my se lf in reading  Filipino books   and that particular books are  written by Bob Ong. I really l ove reading his books because   it really deals  with the real life  aside from its humour.

 So when it  comes in assesing mysel f if I’m a good reader or not  I would asses myself as the  average one  because for now  I’m still on the stage of improving it and there  are still times I  got difficulties when reading. 

My Mission in Life

Everything in this world has its own purpose. Even a very tiny particle of dust has its own purpose. Try to think of it. Would you think this world exists without each tiny particle? This purpose is something we are responsible to make and it’s our mission to fulfill this purpose

When it comes about my mission, many things come into my mind.  Every day I have many things to do from the time I wake up in the morning to the time I sleep at night. As a college student, I consider coming on time in all my classes and understanding what my instructor is teaching are my missions every time I come to school. Since I'm really far away from home even though I live in a boarding house which is only a walking distance from school, I have to take care of myself in order to survive this college life. I think those are the missions I have to do to save the day.

But, still I wonder. Why am I doing all these things every day? And I realize it has a purpose. It has something to do in the future. I have these missions ever day to finish my studies. This is the way I can pay all the sacrifices that my parents have given me from the day  I was born up to I reach this stage of my life and I know they will keep on doing this for me. I believe that they will do their best just to help me reach my dreams for the years to come. But I only get their back so it’s also my responsible to be a deserving daughter in receiving a love that no one can ever give except them. I also have to help myself. In this way I can make them happy and proud of me.

Helping myself to be a good person is my responsibility and I’m obliged to do it in order to accomplish my goals. We have to turn ourselves into a better one not just for ourselves but also to those people who care for us especially our parents.

In other words all these mission account on letting ourselves go in the right way. As a human we are created by God in a unique way. We are unique in such a way that we are mold with our own thoughts. Because of this uniqueness, we are able to do many things. We are choosing between the two, it is either to be good or bad without thinking that we don’t own our life. We have to think that somebody owns us, and it is God. This life we had now is only temporary and we will only be able to have that everlasting life if we will be able to do and accept the God’s way.

                As a person, I am one of the creations of God. My existence in this world has a purpose that I’m obliged to do. This is to live in His way. Now I know my mission is to accomplish this task. I have to be responsible in this purpose that he have given me.