when did I first decide to be an author

When I was in primary school, I dreamed of being an author one day. I started to write stories, I called them mini-novels, but I was warned by my father not to study liberal arts, so I would not get into trouble for the rest of my life.
My father was very creative. Once on a wall at home, he sketched a dragon next to his parent's portrait and wrote a poem in beautiful Chinese calligraphy, describing the dragon and how it would fly high once it awoke. When the workers' rebellion team came to search our home and saw the dragon, although it was under Chairman Mao's portrait, they still accused him of having the ambition to fly above Chairman Mao like the dragon.
I fully understood his warning was from his own painful experience, because during the Cultural Revolution, as his children, we were bullied as little black elements too. Therefore, I chose to study architecture instead. I wish I could tell my father now that it is okay to study arts, because I’m in Australia.