Make books your constant friends

 By THOMAS HUKAHU

MAKE books your constant friends. 

• Read them when you are in the library. 
• Read them when you are finished with given work in class.
• Read them at lunch time when you are not playing.
• Read them at home, when you are done with the chores.
• Read them when you have completed your studies.
• Read them when you find it hard to go to sleep … let them be your lullaby instead of calling mother to come and sing you a song every time.
• Read them when you go to high school and secondary school.
• Read them when you go to college or university. 
• Read them if you cannot make it to university.
• Read them when you work. 
• Read them when you do not have work.
• Read them when you have a boyfriend or girlfriend.
• Read them if you do not have any boyfriend or girlfriend – make books your friends. 
• Read them when you are married. Read them if you remain single.
• Read them when you are happy. Read them when you are sad or lonely.  
• Read them to your children when they grow up. 
• Show them the importance of books when they are as young as you are now so that they will do better than you as they go on in life.
• Read them when you have grandchildren. 
• Read it to those small ones too so they become better than their parents.
• Students read books as long as you live.