Shades of meaning

Shades of meaning

Why is it important for Malaysians to read?

An average adult reads about 250-300 words per minute, that’s about 15000-18000 words per hour and that number brings us to an average of 360000-432000 everyday. That’s like 144540000 words per year! Isn’t that a lot of words to be reading? You would be surprised by the amount of words you’ve read so far and how many words that you know in your vocabulary. Well, we can’t expect you to keep tabs on them, but people nowadays seem to take for granted just how important it is to read or being able to read. Thought its not likely to find an illiterate these days, many people don’t find reading as a main activity during family nights, hobby or just simply for recreational purposes. Due to the vast growth of technology, doing an activity such as reading a book might come off to you as something boring or old-fashion. When in fact, since it is so easy to get anything with just a click of a button, you should have easier access to a book and therefore more likely be in favor of reading. So, why is it important to read, I hear you ask, my fellow Malaysians? Well, to start things off, reading is like providing the mind with nourishment. It’s like pouring water to a wilting plant, if you don’t take care of it by spraying fertilizers and the likes, how do you expect it to grow as healthy as possible? With knowledge, we are able to conquer the world. There is no limit to what we can achieve as long as we have knowledge and that is where reading comes in handy. Most people were introduced to books at a very early age due to their parents upbringing when others started during their schooling years. Reading doesn’t just apply to books, you can be reading anything from newspapers to magazines, textbooks, novels, autobiographies or even reading from the internet. When you start to read, it takes you into another world where anything is possible. Those who like to read novels are likely to be able to escape reality for a few hours, letting their imagination run wild with stories from different genres such as science fiction, romance, mystery/thriller and classics. For those who want information on current events are more likely to pick up the newspaper or a tabloid magazine so that they are up-to-date with everything that is going on in the world. When were seating in the LRT (Light Railway Transit), or drinking at a mamak stall, we noticed that out of 10 people, there is at least 2 people who will be having their nose buried in a book, a newspaper or any reading materials. This is what we call a reading culture where reading has become sort of like a habit to the citizens. Instead of loitering around and doing nothing, reading keeps us occupied and helps us use our time fruitfully. Words are our everyday tools, we use it to speak and to write. By reading, we have a wide selection of words in our vocabularies allowing us to to use all kinds of different words in all kinds of context in speeches and writings. For those who are picking up a new language, reading will be helpful in identifying new words and teach individuals on how to use it when speaking in that language and writing sentences. As you can see, there are many benefits to reading! When you have been taught to read at an early age, it sort of becomes natural to be picking up a book even when you get older. Children nowadays take for granted for the things that they have and do not use it to their advantage. People should make use of technology because they have the richest sources of information. It covers a wide range of topics and people from anywhere in the world can access it 24/7. Therefore boys and girls, brings us to the conclusion that reading is an essential part of our lives. It is important that we know just how big it plays a role in our growth as both a person and a human being.

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IMPORTANCE and BENEFITS OF SPORTS

Have you ever thought why people do sports? Absolutely, many people seem not to know the reasons. As a anectode, there are many people who do sports for nothing around us. Everyday we can encounter with these people. They regularly do sports; however, none of them realizes the benefits and importance of sports. In fact, vice versa, some people want to be fit and attractive, look smart. Unfortunately, these people can’t consider other benefits of sports. In my opinion, there are several benefits of sports that people often do not consider: sports are required to be healthy people, are needed for enjoyment, and are great market for countries’ economies.

The first advantage of sports for people is that they help people be healthy, and be fit. Throughout history, people can’t give up their interest at their body. I belive that now many people love themselves no matter how beautiful or ugly they are. Naturally, people’s first aim should be healthy and fit with the benefits of sports. Due to this fact that Sports keep our body healthy. As a possible example, imagine that there is a car which has not worked for years. If you try to run the motor engine, it will not work anymore since it has been rusted and its engine may be broken down. As a result, people is smillar to engines and motors. If we don’t do sports, we will be forced to rust, in other words, decomposition of our body; afterwards, we may have some problems with our body when we even need to small walk. In addition, sports balance our body’s blood pressure and circulation. According to many researchs which have been done by scientists, we can prove the importance of sports for our health because 70% middle aged people who did not do sports in their youth are now struggling with the problems such as high tension, trouble with blood circulation, easily become tired due to the lack of sports.

The second advantage of sports for people is that they are required for our daily lives and competing at the internatinal area because of enjoyment of sports. For many years, sports have been done by people. For example, have you ever thought why people want to play football or other games? The answer may be easy since sports are entertaining. They are sometimes magics as they catch our attention and give us pleasure as much as we need. Sometimes overwhelming life conditions may be unfair and make us unhappy. However, if there is a sport activity when we are unhappy, we will probably be motivated and be refreshed again after the sport activity. This should be the most important benefit of sports because many people do sports for this reason. In addition, have you ever thought why millions of people watch World Cup match without breathing? There might be some reasons behind the action of watching football match. The most important one might be the excitement and enjoyment of sport. Football match is exhilating because it gives us pleasure to watch. In the pitch and near the pitch, there are more than 18 men, and they are the representative of our sport culture. Within the excitment of sports, countries are able to compete in the international area. Due to this fact people like sports since they and their countries are able to compete and beat opponent countries and this is the most important reason to take pleasure from sports.

The final and least advantage of sports is that they are the huge market for countrie’s economy. First of all, if we look at only football industry. There are more than thousand professional team and at least these team have 25 players. If this is calculated, there are approximately 25000 players without working staff, scouts, coaches and managers. This shoud be the largest industry which employs many people in Turkey. In addition, countries and clubs have to establish new facilities for sports game. Some of them are the largest buldings in the entire country that represent countries, for example Ataturk Olympic Stadium in Turkey. Supplying funds for this buldings may be the publicity of countries since constructing well designed stadiums help country preapare or organize big competitons such as World Cup, Olympics, and Tennis Tournaments. Finally, sports allow advertisement companies to make publicity of strong brands. For example, sponsorship is one of the best publicity of one company. Everyone watchs thier favourite team or atlethe, and audiance will probably see the sponsor of team or atlethe. For example, in England, Manchester United which is one of the most powerful clubs in international area has a sponsor called Vodafone. I am from Turkey, and I even know its sponsor. This will probably show the effectiveness of sponsorship in sports.

All in all, we can conclude that there are several advantages and benefits of sports. First, sports are required by people to be fit, smart, and good looking. Second, sports are entertaining due to many facts. Third, sports are the huge market for countries’ economies. In my opinion, despite sports’ advantages, many people can’t believe that sports are useful and beneficial. I hope that in the future these people will tend to be more optimistically to sports since they are the neccessity of our lives.