You are truly perfect. Self-confidence is such a thing; it comes from your ability and control over the matter. If you apply it properly, as per the need of the hour, success will kiss you.
William Shakespeare died over 409 years ago but remains equally relevant even now. How is it possible? He could see the future. We can't live forever. Everybody must either die early or later. You may be rich or poor; that doesn't matter. You will be no more after death. You will not allow carrying a penny with you. So, why do we feel jealous? or getting angry? We should ealize that.
In our India, there are a huge number of local libraries. In every colony, we can see those. It is very small but plays an important role in creating reading habits. These are almost free and mainly created to build up reading awareness between children and teenagers.As it is dealing with students, the timing is too small, 4pm to 6pm. But it is able to create reading habits. So, the detective, horror, and adventure storybooks are mainly available here. In our locality, there are two small libraries. Those were my heaven. My reading habits grew from there. That's the importance of local libraries.
I have my kindle and use kindle unlimited which is very, very handy, but I also like to have the physical books. I LOVE bookstores, but those are slowly dying out. I'm not sure they were ever that popular in Australia, as they were in the UK - maybe it's the weather.
My library has evolved, big time. They have all kinds of tech classes plus traditional classes, storytime, reading challenges, paper and digital books. They even lend out different devices for folks who need them for schoolwork and playaways for anyone who wants to borrow them (it's like a preloaded audiobook device that just has one book and I think you check it out like a book).
SandraLynn So glad to hear that your local library is still alive. This does hold some hope for the future.
Cubby Weren't you the lucky one! I always admired librarians, their coolness, soft-spoken help, knocking on their desks when youngsters at the tables became noisy...and the groups and the clubs and the children's part of the library, too, where some smart mothers brought their kids, even their toddlers. Once, one mother explained to me that she was trying to teach her baby, early on.
Like you, I too miss it all, be it from the other side of your desk at the library.
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