Short speech on ‘Books’ for ASL(2mins)
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Dear Society Members and Children – I warmly welcome you all to my house! Hope everyone is looking forward to the time when the construction of library would be complete and it will then be furnished with a lot of interesting books for reading.
Today therefore I invited you all so that I can deliver a short speech on books and encourage everyone, children in particular to make the optimum use of our society library. I also invite your suggestions and advice on how we can make this library a better place for all. If anyone feels the lack of something, please feel free to reach me anytime. You are also requested to spread the word in our neighboring societies so that they can also get the advantage of it. The library membership is free for the society members and for the outsiders it would be Rs. 1,000 for a year. I hope the library and its resources would be best utilized without causing them any harm.
Now coming to the important habit of reading books, it is indeed a great habit and books should be treasured. There are even such libraries, which have preserved ancient manuscripts. These manuscripts enable us get to our roots and act as a window to allow us travel back in the historical time and derive knowledge out of it.
However, with the giant leap in technology, digital libraries have replaced actual libraries in the physical world out there. These digital libraries just require pressing of buttons and with mobile phones and tablets being so handy anyone can access such libraries anytime, anywhere, even while traveling. The only difference that we feel is instead of turning pages after pages in case of a book, touch screen method is employed in phones and tablets. Yes, it has brought a sweeping change in the world and has changed the way people have been reading books in the previous times, but reading as a habit has still held sway on the people’s minds.
However, at the same time we should not divert from our old habit of reading from actual books. Getting to feel the pages of books while reading has a different feeling altogether and buying good books is indeed an excellent investment that will never go waste. As John Milton, the great poet once said, Milton “A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.”
Good books act as a beam of light that illumines our world and shows us the right path. In the Bible, we do observe the author of a Psalm reiterating this fact, “Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path!”
It is therefore advisable to make a collection of good books not only at your home, but library too so that more and more people can be benefited out of it. Make good books your companion and see what the magic unfolds! This is all I have to say!
Thank You