Day 1: The Book That Changed My Life

Even though the title summarizes that the blog is about a certain book that changed my life. As a child, I was not really fond of reading books, it was more like I take solving simple Mathematical problems much fun, which unfortunately not my best subject right now. But it does not mean that I’ve never read books before.

When I was younger, I actually liked to “play” a certain set of children’s books known as The Sesame Street Books. The set has fifteen volumes, and each volume contain topics that will start with the given letter (for example, volume one will contain letters A, B, & C). I remember reading some of them and then giving up because I was too lazy to read them, and since I’m an outsider-type as a child, it is more fun for me to play with my neighbors than shut myself in the house and read some books.

But that changed when technology slowly occupied my mind. Before I knew it, I started to hate the outside world. I began pulling myself away from my friends, I still didn’t take time to read some stuffs and so. So then, I occupied myself by playing computer games, watching cartoons such as Barbies, Disney Movies, and many other more. And it became worse as time passed by, I learned to play online games such as Audition, O2Jam, D.O.T.A. and Counter Strike, I became addicted in watching anime, I discovered Friendster, which was so popular back then, and so on so forth.

Technology, at that time, became natural to me as breathing. It was something I could not take away from my life, unfortunately, until now, it is still a natural part of my life. Reading is not something I usually do, except when its academically related.

Then between my first and second year high school days, I tried reading a Japanese comic known as “Manga” and before I knew it, I became addicted to it. During my elementary days, there are times that I’ve actually wanted to try reading them but failed, because they did not pique my interest back then even though I’m what you would call an Otaku. Then after reading some of them during my high school days, before I knew it, reading them online became a habit of mine, even now as I type this blog, I’m still reading some of them. But personally, I never though that “reading online” is the same as “reading books,” that’s why I consider them to be different from each other.

Then that’s when, during my fourth year in high school, I accidentally became close to my two classmates (we’ve been classmates since the start of first year), who were super addict in reading in Wattpad Stories that was compiled as books and were super hit that time. They were so famous back then, but I was too lazy to read them and they cost money. But one of them tried to pursue me in reading by letting me borrow one of her collectibles, since it was too embarrassing to refuse such offer, I took the trouble to read them, and beyond my expectation, I never though that I would actually liked a book. And that’s when I started collecting novels, be it may from Wattpad or not.

This was something I began to enjoy aside from watching anime and reading manga, but it only continues until the first semester of my first year in college. Since I was too busy with school works and such, and I didn’t have the enough time to even sleep, Reading books except academically related became one step to impossible, even though I still read Manga. It actually continued until I became too lazy to read one even if I have nothing to do. Instead of reading them, I’d rather rest and sleep. Although I, or more like my younger sister still collects them because she really love it.

It all continued until I met a new book last month (June). I met the BOOK THAT REALLY CHANGED MY LIFE, and I’m confident to say, FOREVER. And do you know what it was? It was the Bible, the book of God. The book that was just I though was a decoration in our house, just laying around waiting for someone to read it was actually the ONE who changed my life. I can say that I have not yet read the whole book, but with just certain number of pages, my life became brighter, colorful, livelier, happier, peaceful, and so many positive words I can use to describe life.

It’s been month since then, many people said to me that I’ve changed so much. from a person with short temper and would always draw her anger to other people, a person whose mood you cannot read, I became a person who speaks nothing but the words of the Lord, I became a happy-go-lucky girl, I became more patient, and it was more than I could ever wished and imagined. In just a month, the book called “Bible” changed my life forever.