Thomas Fuller on the practice of happiness and the book he's now writing

For a long time I didn't think I could do every day everyday but I did for years and years, and finally I became happy.

I became happy by giving in to happiness every day, by making a practice of being happy and sticking to it.

Before I knew it I never knew I could be so happy.

Happiness itself started to show up in everything I thought and felt.

I became a happy person, a happy writer and reader, a happy consumer of happy things, a happy friend to happy people who even if they were unhappy became happy the moment I saw how happy they really were.

I was writing a book called "Monsieur Ambivalence" when my conversion from sadness to happiness began. The writing took 9 years of being sad and happy, happy and sad, sad and then happy, and finally happy in the end for a long time.

I've begun to write a new book with the working title, "The Classical World," a fictional investigation into the philosophical origins of the contemporary world as imagined by a traveler from North America traveling south of Rome all the way to Sicily, only because writing it makes me happy.

Happy, I keep writing and writing the book about the classical world with two ideas in mind: 1) why is it not possible to feel good all the time and 2) how did the ancient Greeks deal with depression.

I'm coming closer and closer to the end, I just don't know how close I'm coming or how it will all end.

I seem to be the sort of writer who likes to see everything the way it is and then do something about it, and to be happy about that if nothing else.