Reading and writing are uniquely human skills

If there is one important trait that we humans have over other animals, it is the ability to encode our environment and experiences thru symbols and share it with others. This is done through reading and writing and only us humans over other animals have this ability.

Individually, we are limited by our environment and personal experience. But reading allows us to transcend ourselves and milieu and infinitely broadens our environment.  Through reading, we become more than what we are as we acquire knowledge and information that we otherwise would not have. Reading feeds our mind and gives us an important link to each other in space and time.

As our daily life becomes more complex and busy, we tend to neglect to feed our mind by reading. We do this but only to our own disadvantage.

But when we read, we should also be conscious of what we read because not all information have the same value. What we put in our head becomes us and so we must also be discerning and careful about what we read.