Hobby or Habit

Hello, my name is Sharon. 

Reading history

I started reading novels when I was about ten years old. At that time, I was really into martial arts novels by 金庸, but there were only a few in the school library. Fortunately, one of my classmates had the whole series of 金庸's novels, and she was very kind to lend it to me, so I ended up reading almost all of 金庸's novels. However, after so many years, I can only remember a small part of the stories now.

By the way, an interesting thing was that all the physical novels I read were either from the library or from my classmates. None of them were from my home since my father thought it was useless to read novels, and he also forbade me to read novels.

Preference

I prefer novels with happy endings since I will be easily affected by the plots of the

stories and feel depressed for the whole day if I read a novel with sad endings, like the

novel Me Before You.

Hobby

As for my hobby, I enjoy reading online novels a lot. Though I often say it's my hobby, reading novels is actually a habit of mine that lasts for nearly ten years. However, I have been trying to quit this habit in the previous years because it's hard for me to control myself to read at the right time, which has already affected my life. In my teenage years, once I started reading a novel, I couldn't get anything done until I finished it, which was a terrible thing. At school, it made me unable to concentrate on the class, while at home, staying up late for novels messed up my body clock, which led to a series of problems.

It wasn't easy to get out of this habit when I didn't have any other interests to replace it. I often felt like I was wasting my life but just couldn't get out of it. I have been struggling with it for many years and it still lasts until today, but it has become so much better since I have better self-discipline now.