Metacognitive Reflection of my Reading habits

  I tend to read alot during the evening. I find myself reading short stories and novels. My passion in my life is about my children. I am a very introspective person.All of my life I have been drawn to working with other people. I try to read in the morning when I arise to fill my mind with positive thoughts about the path I am on and give myself a better perspective of what it is I want to accomplish each day. My goal in reading is to expand my mind and my perspective to allow new ideas to help me to create a better life for myself and my children.Keeping my mind alert through reading lots of different topics and authors definitely allows me to broaden the way I see this world that we live in. I have created a life today that through reading I am able to find the self confidence to return to school and try to regain the self confidence to become a better man and an example to my children.I read voraciously and try to fuel my mind with many ideas and thought process's that hopefully I can utilize to give my kids a better view of our society. I once held beliefs that were engrained by my father that as I grew older I found were quite distorted and even a little racist. My belief that people who are judgemental are usually ignorant and uneducated.I believe through reading I have,can,and will be the man I believe God wants me to be and if I just try everyday I will find first my own personal truth and then my purpose in the life I am living today.I am a good reader because when I was young my mother spent alot of time reading to me and through that time that she took out of her day I found that I eventually  learned to read and see the intrinsic value in spending that time with children.Which is why I participate in a program at the youth center where I live in south county helping young people learn to read.I want to show them that reading everyday can help to create a better future