In ancient times reading was an art for elite, and now with contemporary free education in most countries, it’s available for everyone. Till today it’s been the best way of getting information fast and rather cheap. With the development of high technologies and the Internet reading became the main way to get knowledge, because if you have an Internet connection, there’s the whole world on your computer’s screen. However, nowadays people live ‘faster’ than their ancestors, you know what I mean. That’s why a lot of people do want to learn how to read faster in order to get information first. Even such a thing developed as ’looking through’ the text, because there’s no time now to enjoy the language, the style and the meaning. On the one hand, it’s good, because information is money now, and time is money. On the other hand, as I have already said, it’s not the form that matters now, not the language, but the information. That’s why language decreases, as you can see everywhere in mass-media, a lot of clichés appear. They make people not to think at what they are going to say and how they’re going to say it, and just use simple phrases. Only those who have reading as a hobby can afford just enjoying the language.

And what is reading for you?

Time spent reading is time well spent. When we read we expand our basic vocabulary, even as adults. Reading stretches our minds like nothing else can and we all too often pass it over as a meaningless past time. Reading gives us the ability to exercise our imaginations and get caught up in a turbulent and loving story that might teach us something about the world. Reading is a past time that doesn’t involve noise, that doesn’t involve negative thoughts, and that doesn’t involve pressure. When you snuggle down reading a book there is no one there to judge the speed of your process of the level of your comprehension. Over time, you can develop a very strong ability to communicate effectively as a result of reading.

Reading can make for good therapy. A good story line can actually challenge us and offer us thought provoking questions that result in changes within our lives. We learn more about the world when we read and we can spur on our basic knowledge of the world in a very detailed and positive manner. Reading gives us the chance to enter a new world without spending more than just a few dollars on the book. We can travel to new places and meet new people in our minds and when we finally put the book down, we can feel refreshed and a little more knowledgeable about the world at large. We can peek into how other people live, and most of all, how the author thinks.