Th Comfort Zone

by Jamie Padilla

The crossroad of Billy Casper Way and Bonita Road was merely once an entrance to the Chula Vista Golf Course. However, it wasn’t until 2004 when the Bonita-Sunnyside Library was transferred to this crossroad. Before the library was small and unappealing. Its new location and modern architecture was sure to catch one’s eye. 

The old library was slightly closer to my house, however I rarely found myself there. At the time of the old library, I was still in elementary school and my main resource was my school library. When the library relocated to its current site, I was graduated from elementary school and on my way to middle school.

Stepping up to a higher grade at a new school meant stepping up the coursework. Seventh grade tested your abilities to research information. Eighth grade used your study to create. It was in eighth grade where you started creating essays, projects, and etc. Eighth grade was when I started using the Bonita-Sunnyside Library frequently. The library is a sense of security to my learning. It is filled with books, movies, and computers for my needs of enjoyment or research.

Eighth grade I spent the majority of my time researching through the books, encyclopedias, and computers to find information on the life of Oprah Winfrey to Slavery in America. It was a typical to find me at the library once a week with a friend or two working on a project or helping each other with homework. Rather than seeing the library as a burden, we found it enjoyable and easy to work in. The library was a successful way to escape from the temptations of blogs, television, food, and social networking. As all libraries are built around tranquility and silence for complete focus, so was the Bonita-Sunnyside.

Not only does the library take you away from distractions, but takes you away from friends or family if you need alone time. It is rough to try and get work done when you are being faced with problems and working by yourself in a library is often a healthier environment to focus on work rather than the rest of the world.

In high school, the majority of my books and novels came from my school library, however, I didn’t feel the same environment there as the Bonita-Sunnyside Library. When I needed research, I wasn’t hesitant to go down to the community library. As I stepped up to the next level, and to the following grades I have found myself in using the library for one-on-one time. It is just me and my work.

I can see the expansion of my appreciation for my library throughout the years of growing up. My library gives me a stage of comfort. It is filled with an indescribable amount of resources and qualities that I look up to. Libraries around the world are the primary source of not only knowledge, but comfort. I know I will continue to use not only the Bonita-Sunnyside Library, but any library I can find to help me succeed with my college education and beyond.