I think when I was as young as
five years, I started reading books. In our neighborhood, there was a young boy
who in his home keeping empty fruit box upside down used to give little story
books on fare which I started to take. On that time, the fare was as cheap as
one ana (six paisas) which was closed in coming days, because Govt. has ended
the use of Annas. Anyway, I come to the matter, from there I started reading
books. My first read books were of only five inches square comprising not more
than ten pages. They were all about jinn’s and magicians who used to keep in
prison to beautiful princesses who were released by strange princes or other
poor lumberjacks and usually in ends they lived happily after marriages. This
type of book reading ran for two years and after them I started reading Naunehal—a
children digest, which was the best magazine which can be read in juvenile age.
I got lot of benefits from this magazine and my general knowledge increased at a
par level. During this period, in my school, I used to participate in quiz
programs and most often I used to win and received prizes. This period ran as
long as I came to class nine and then, I started reading detective novels, they
broadened my thoughts and that time they had much fascination for me. When I
came in college I started to read Imran Series which were also detective type
novels. I loved to read these novels so much that due to them, I did not give
due attentions to my text books and did not get selected for any good
professional careers. But those novels laid a good impact on my life too, as
from that time when I was seventeen years old I started physical exercises which
kept me in best shape albeit now I am in my mid-forties. Like the hero of novel
– Imran, I tried to become multifaceted personality, now I can do easily
mechanical works like repairing of electrical appliances and in the same way I
have the flair of literature reading and also love to do figure works like
accounting and involving into the data base related works which are also parts
of my current profession. Anyway, when I came in my graduation, I started
reading pure Urdu literature like novels, pros and poems of famous writers which
created depth in my thoughts and broadened my intellectual faculties. After
diving few years into literature, I started to read religious books which even
now are in my practice, they laid a great impact on me and I think that I have
been on track of true knowledge and they are making me think that life is going
to its end and due to that thought, I take myself to be a stranger in this
world. This attitude gave me a great relief and I do not take any body’s
comments and misbehaving about myself seriously and left to become angry and
sad. And now, from couple of years, I started to ready English literature and
trying to carryon blog writing and short stories. So, this was my whole travel
of reading as from which stages my reading passed and now where it lies.