Personal Belief on Reading and Writing

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Growing up I counted myself as one of the lucky few in the world where the act of reading and writing was not only encouraged but was a passion of many historical figures like Martin Luther King Jr., Fredrick Douglas Langston Hughes, and Emily Dickenson and many other trailblazers and patriots of history who became great minds by not just accepting their circumstances but doing something to make life better not only for themselves but the people around them. I have always had this wish that I could one day rendezvous with at least some of these historical figures that I have always wanted to emulate and maybe I could ask them about their experiences and how they survived in such a harsh and unforgiving word such as ours. A rendezvous is a meeting with someone that is arranged for a particular time and place and that is often secret.

I really believe reading and writing not only paved the way for these abolitionists, poets, ministers, civil rights leaders and other great men and women. But this act of reading and writing also opened up their eyes to a whole new world but gave them the determination and resilience in order to achieve that new world in the face of insurmountable obstacles. Me on the other hand, I have always had this love affair with the art of spoken word whether it was from my mother reading stories to me at bedtime I can still hear her soft light musical voice now, or from me telling myself stories just to entertain myself so as you can see my attitudes toward reading and writing have always been favorable even when mean, old, wrinkled, teachers and struggling, jealous, students would criticize my writing and reading technique just because they could not read or write a...

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...ic given and there is also no right and wrong answer in writing like there are in many other subjects that you learn in school and in everyday life.

I also am a testament to the healing powers of reading and writing for example if you have had a bad day you can pick up a either a book or your journal and by the time you are finished reading that book or writing in your diary or journal about your experiences during the day you will feel like a weight has been lifted off of your shoulders.

Many people including me believe that reading and writing should not only be done for the purpose of getting a good grade or because a teacher tells you to but that it is like most journeys because it begins with a single step and should be practiced daily and both appreciated and respected not looked on as a trial or a punishment but as a creative outlet for the mind.

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