Good: Reading, enjoyment, and life

Individual preferences such as favourite hobbies and books are normally different from other people’s. This is able to illustrate what their personality is like. I have always considered myself a lifelong reader as I always enjoy reading many types of books. However, my reading lists might be dynamic, but they can be mainly categorised into three periods of time, when I was in primary, secondary, and tertiary education.

 When I was in primary school, I was influenced by my classmates to read many Japanese comic books, which are officially called manga. However, they were in the flavour of reading various kinds of manga. Some who loved playing football tended to read sport manga such as Captain Tsubasa: A great football player. On the other hand, I enjoyed reading Doraemon instead, one of the most famous Japanese cartoons among Thai children. I was not very interested in novels and I think it was because I did not want to read much text but pictures. Although there were many renowned light novels like Harry Potter, I did not read it as I thought watching Harry Potter in the theatre was much more enjoyable.

Being a high school student was more challenging. I had a chance to discover many types of books from science to myth. Nevertheless, reading autobiographies and biographies of successful people was one of my interests. As a science-math programme student, I read a lot of outstanding scientists’ histories such as Albert Einstein’s and Stephen Hawking’s. Apart from these scientists, I also focused on businessmen like Bill Gates and Richard Branson. These together shaped how I thought and broadened my horizons. Still, I did not want to read any novels and I assume this behaviour stemmed from my previous notion that I felt novels had many words to read. 

Looking at the period of university life, unfortunately, I stopped reading the aforementioned books when I did a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering. One of the reasons behind this is that I had to attend many lectures and read numerous academic textbooks instead. Although I considered myself a physics-related lover, it was difficult in the beginning to read these kinds of books. After spending some time with these books, I eventually managed to be able to feel comfortable and sometimes fascinated to read them. Personally, I think reading engineering text books benefited me in several ways. First, this organised my thought to be systematic. Moreover, the books pushed me to be more consistent to overcome difficult chapters of them.

In conclusion, people have their own preferences such as any hobbies, while I enjoy reading books. However, my reading lists depend on my age and the environment, but most of them encourage me to be more knowledgeable and to improve my thinking.