Reading dying out.

Reading is an art of doing research and filtering information which demands understanding and analyzing skills. To inculcate reading habit is the quality of a person to learn and appreciate the world. Reading helps one to become an ethically dependable and a better human being. Through reading a person can discover the value of life and can get engaged in a constructive way. Reading not only improves understanding and speaking but also the writing skills. It is the best and the preliminary step to become a good writer. A person who has a habit of reading can be more expressive and confident.

Reading a book of interest, comic or anything improves literacy and drives the sensation in literacy. Whereas there are many people who think that writing well and learning how to write well develops literacy. Obviously writing has an impact of our personality but reading truly makes us literate. Even the thought of staring at words and turning them into thoughts and ideas makes our brain work. Writing comes only after reading. To become a good writer one has to read more and understand the ways and guidelines of writing.

The changes that are taking place due to modernization are extremely devastating and great in Bhutan. These drastic changes are having a great influence in the way people think and behave. The value of reading materials is fading away with time. People prefer other electronic gadgets than to read. This shows that the youths of future are likely to become intellectually handicapped and poor in terms of extra and general knowledge. Every day most people are engaged with interactive and entertaining form of social Medias like face book, e-mailing, and other internet facilities and becomes fully dependent on it. Though these materials provide accessibility to information but it in a way has a negative effect on them. These materials have more of entertaining stuffs than the educative one, so it is obvious that the user is likely to get distracted.

Reading also helps to analyze and imagine which develops the thinking power. The more we think and analyze, the more we develop our reading as well as writing skills. Reading also put importance on learning about various cultures across the world. Being open to the elements of diverse way of life, readers get to know more about human dynamics. Reading can also become a hobby which can be a good habit to spend the leisure time. But nowadays student and any other professionals do not read for leisure, reading has now become a compelled thing. No one prefers to read unless they are asked to. Reading for leisure is dying with time and modernization. Nowadays teachers have to force a student to read and write. This means that the importance of reading anything of value is being disregarded. Social media hinders people’s ability to experience worthy literary works. So read to write, and read to explore. Reading has no limits and rules.