SSR Experience

In SSR we are given approximately 40 minutes upon coming into class and reading. That only happens if everyone goes straight to their seat has a book in hand and we are not turning in any papers. I however just never seemed to be that interested in the books I lost focus and just took granted of that time to do other homework from another class or study for a test I was going to take. I did not feel like always reading so therefore, I did not read a whole book. I actually love reading I get into books and it just has become sometime I enjoy doing in my free time when there is not a single thing to do. I play soccer so as everyone knows that takes up time effort and energy even if I wanted to read a book that night I would open it up and end up just falling asleep because I was tired. Reading is a very basic fundamental thing I thing everyone should enjoy and do because you learn so much from it. I have not been a fluent reader in my whole life just soccer and then in my free time hang out with friends and family. My mom used to make me read a least one book during summer but I never got into them. I began this semester reading MY SISTER'S KEEPER and do not get me wrong it is truly a great inspiring book however, I could not get into it just not my style of reading. What I did read in it was how a young girl was born to save her sister. Her sister was diagnosed with cancer and needed many blood transfusions and her sister was conceived and a perfect match for her. Now it was the young girls opinion that she loved her sister very much and loved that she could help her although it did get to the point where she began to just feel used and not wanted for who she was but only to help her sister live. She began a whole court process to be emancipated so she would no longer have to have blood taken with big long needles. The mother was furious that the daughter would even consider leaving her family and not helping her sister the dad had to step in and tell the mom they could not force her to do this for her sister but could sympathize how much it would mean to them and the daughter with cancer. That part in the story made me realize how we take people for granted all the time and we need to depend upon ourselves and find other ways so that we do not make people feel like we only want one thing.