Since my childhood, all my happiness comes from external things.

Sometimes my mother went to town market to buy delicious food for me, I felt happy. As my main food were three dinners, candy, banana, persimmon cake etc were all delicious to me.

Having Spring Festival was happy to me too because I could get a little pocket money from my parents. With pocket money, I could buy things I liked. Most of time, I bought food, toy and books.

When I got delicious food, I would enjoy it gradually so that I could last my happiness. When I got a toy, I would play it day and night until I got completely tired of it. When I got a book, I would read it with great enthusiasm until I finished it. I don’t have those first two kinds of happiness now and my third kind of happiness isn’t as strong as before. A thing is valued if it’s rare. Probably I have a lot of books to read, the happiness of reading books becomes less and less.

Before my college, I liked watching TV but my father never bought a TV. Owning a TV so that I could watch whatever channel I liked was probably the biggest happiness to me then. When I got my own TV, I was happy for a while and now I don’t even watch TV. In elementary school, if it was summer vacation or winter vacation, I was allowed to watch TV. I could walk one mile in dark night without flashlight in order to watch TV. In cold winter night, I could watch TV until midnight. I was grateful because my neighbor could allow me to watch TV until midnight even though he didn’t watch it. Now my living situation is better, but my happiness is becoming less and less. I’m still me, only a little older. Why? I did everything for fun when I was young. Now I do everything in order to win something and rarely do something for fun. No wonder my happiness isn’t willing to stay with me anymore.

Once I went home on weekend and saw a guy playing Tetris. I stood near him watching him play for two hours. I really wished I could have a Tetris player then, but I had no fun at all when I owned one by myself.

In college, my classmate had his own computer. Wow, he could watch TV drama and movie according to will. The initiative watching method was much better than passive watching mode of TV. He could watch pictures and read books and listened to music according to will. He could play all kinds of computer games. What an amazing thing it was. When I owned one by myself, I made myself gaunt and didn’t think it was a big deal.

Happiness comes from heart instead of external things. Warm sunshine, good health, cool wind…All can bring me happiness. I should be a guy who can seek happiness from common things around me. Other people think villa, limousine, TRS or baby wife can bring happiness, maybe I shouldn’t follow them.

I can seek happiness from simple and quiet life. During work, I try my best to do everything to support myself. After work, I can read books I like and write things I want to say. If I’m tired, I can sleep heavily without worrying about anything. Sometimes, I can walk around seeing people come and go.

After following other people’s footsteps for so many years, maybe I should try to walk according to my own choice.

Reading and writing can make me happy. As a reader, I used to think of finish all books in the world. Now I think it’s really stupid. As a writer, probably an author, I wanted to become somebody. Now I think it’s stupid. If I can’t treat writing as a hobby instead of an aim, I’ll never be happy. I write to entertain myself, if by any chance to entertain someone else, I will be happier.

During my process of seeking writing secret, I found a lot of people wanted to become rich by writing. There is no need to say traditional writer. We only talk about author who writes something on the Internet.

A guy named Third Young Master of Tang Family earned 3,300,000 Yuan in five years and became the richest network author. I Eat Tomato was the second while Heaven Silkworm Potato was the third. All of them are writing fantasy. They originally liked reading fantasy works and gradually found those works weren’t good enough. Then they wrote fantasy for fun and gradually found it could support themselves.

To be honest, I didn’t like fantasy works before. I only read history and documentary writing. Now I find I’m wrong and ignore imagination too much. Nowadays people are living with huge pressure and that’s why they like reading fantasy works to relax. In real life, most of us sell our freedom to employer, live in rental room, have fast food and walk on street only to watch luxuries. In fantasy works, we can get everything we want to satisfy us. Seeing the most read novels, nearly all of which are fantasy works. At the same time, writing fantasy is safe and free. We don’t have to worry about getting involved in politics; we don’t have to worry about lack of inspiration for the resource of imagination is limitless. Fantasy works can bring more happiness than realism works. I guess that’s the reason fantasy works are the most popular right now because happiness is becoming rarer and rarer.