Eileen M. PagaduanBSE32EDUC140Reflection:

Reading is an important activity in our daily life. We read newspaper and articles on the internet. Through reading we become knowledgeable and we learned how to be aware on our surroundings. Before, many people choose reading as a pleasure or past time activity. I think even youths before do some reading. Today technologies keep popping out everywhere and I think people around the globe today didn’t even think about to open a book and read. Instead they choose these gadgets as a past time activity. Before lots of people collect books and they treasure it so much. Now, we begin to collect gadgets that are so expensive and we will do everything to have a new gadget instead of having a book.

Based on the article I read, it’s sad to think that people nowadays (including me) are no longer have o interest to read a book or any reading materials. We didn’t even bother to open a book once unless it is badly needed. The only time we open a book when we do some researches that require a book other than internet or if the teachers tell to do some reading. It is hard to some reading especially if it is in the book. Nowadays we do our reading through internet or the E-book and not on the real book. I think books become now useless because of internet and E-books.

Youths today chose TV, CDs, gadgets and any material beside a book. It’s very rare to see that youth ask for a present a book. On their wish list is a new cell phone or any gadgets but not a book. Never ever in their life they will wish that. But it’s more alarming that our reading comprehension and skills are greatly affected because of these new technologies. We’ve got a low average on reading comprehension because we don’t like to read and read but only to play and play using this gadget. It seems that it is corrupting our mind to do not some reading. For today, reading is now a boring activity that even old people will agree.

Somehow even if these technologies keep popping out, I learned that reading never dies. Why? We can still read through internet. We read messages on our e-mails; we read status on Facebook and articles in the Google. See? You may hate reading and you don’t want to read because you find it boring where in fact you do some reading without noticing at all. You can’t escape the fact that you still need to read.

Reading doesn’t only exist in books. In fact they appear every where that most of the time you did read it all. As our world changes, this kind of activity of reading will still find ways on how you will notice it. It moves on different ways without you knowing it. It’ amazing isn’t? Reading has its own way on how to cope with changes.