Letters turn into words, which combine to form sentences.
With these tools, life is jotted down and history is recorded.
Through those stories, we learn, adapt and become better.
But what’s the use of black ink on paper?
What’s the use of literature with no one there to read?
In our youth, what we are exposed to helps shape our future.
Without the necessary instruments, it would be difficult to grow.
And to cultivate those skills, it takes a team.
Reading does more than nurture our mind.
It opens the world to endless possibilities.
It gives us the opportunity to succeed.
At the age of eight, my older brother was graduating from high school. As I saw a girl walking up the stage to talk, I asked my mother why she was addressing the audience when no one else was. My mother went on to say that the young lady was the top student of the graduating class. She was the valedictorian. Listening to her well versed speech, I knew I wanted to be just like her.
I was fortunate enough to have parents who instilled in me the importance of education. I attribute my success to the first of many books my mother read to me as a child. Through her words that soon became mine, I read and read, until I was that girl on the stage.
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