MADE ME AWAKE, SELF-CONFIDENT AND MENTALLY FRESH
BRO PAVUL RAJ SG
1.What difference has reading made to your life?
To be very honest, reading was not my greatest passion; but writing was. This was probably due to many reasons. In my childhood days, other than the school text books, I did not have access to books or journals except the Bible and the little Catechism books. And the Catechism books did not interest me at all, because they were so boring. To make it worse, the presentation of catechism in the classes was very far from real life situations; it did not create any special interest to read outside of the class hours. However, I now vividly remember having set up a small library for my friends in our neighbour’s portico with some old books and newspapers. I really took up to reading only after joining the congregation with the daily reading of newspapers in the morning hours. In fact, I began to read, speak and write proper English, only after I began to read the newspapers. This led me to read books and journals of different topics that interested me. Over the years, the reading habit has made me self-confident, awake to the realities of the world, updated and connected while participating in ordinary conversations and discussions; it has taken me to places; it has enlarged my vision and views and guarded me from getting self-opinionated. It has kept me alert to the happenings in the world and has offered me a kind of freshness which I cannot get from just watching a video in the YouTube or seeing a movie.
BRO PAVUL RAJ SG
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