Writing? So sorry to say I haven't written anything called my own for decades...perhaps, at least, 2 decades..

28 years ago, I graduated from a teacher's school and started to be a village school teacher in an extremely under-developed rural town of China. I didn't have good education ( graduated from a local community college), nor did a great talent for any discipline, except my full passion on literary scribbling (certainly in my native tongue - Chinese) with a lofty yet remote dream to be a Nobel Prize winner someday in the future (in fact, my juvenile dream was to be a Physcist Nobel Prize winner like Einstein....See, I might have been a great figure, though now I have to struggle for a living).

During my 3 years as a country teacher, I scribbled hundreds of pages - none of them was ever on any publications, and also wrote my diary every day. Though harsh and propertyless, more accurately, penniless ( My monthly salary was 46 RMB, meant 8 US dollars! ), I felt everything had been so true, even sour sweet - the moons, days, nights, rains, pains, sweats, promises, failures, lost love...

Finally, I realized I had to move my way up, otherwise I might be completely drowned in the hopless oblivion. I started to discipline myself in English, and helped myself got into a specialized language university in Guangzhou, a 1st tier city and a hot spot of capitalist economy.

Then, I taught business English at a college for 4 years and then went to do legal and financial translation for Hong Kong market and law firms. I transleted numerous IPO prospectus, AR, IR, legal papers, yet, I seldom wrote anything of my own (diaries or literary scribblings).

Appreciate MO's space for and his pesonal spurring to any one of us to write something of our own. That's hard at beggining, yet wonderful once you kicked off your keying. Hope every one of us could pick up your pen, write something of your own everyday, no matter how busy you are. In fact, I believe, each of us have spend more hours in online surfing or watching videos. Just forget those junkies (any info. beyond our purpose or capacity could be called addictive junkies), say something of your own!