This is an everyday emo ramble, written to encourage myself to keep writing and keep this WeChat official account alive.
Words I’ve been accumulating for a long time — every time I want to publish them, something feels slightly off, so they stay in the drafts folder. Just like that, two months have slipped by.
So many times, I’ve had a strong urge to write, but the moment I pick up the pen, the feelings refuse to turn into words. So this time, I’m simply not writing the content — I’ll just list the titles of the articles I wanted to write. You can fill in the content yourselves; consider 800 words omitted from each piece. The titles below are in no particular order.
“Gyges’ Peeping”
This is the second chapter of “A General Course on Ancient Greek Thought — Herodotus”, and it’s already 80% done.
“Gold and Bitcoin”
When I started this piece, around late September, international gold was at $3,800/oz, and dabing (大饼, Chinese crypto slang for Bitcoin) was at $120,000. By the time I finished the draft, gold had broken through $4,000/oz, and Bitcoin had gone through the 10/11 wipeout.
“Talk Money, Not Love”
A record of how my understanding of “money” has changed. If you had 1 million in cash right now to use freely, how would you manage it? And if you could know in advance when your life would end, and you still had that 1 million in cash, how would you spend it?
“The Art of Making Money”
A summary of what a year of bookkeeping has brought to our family finances.
“So Be It”
Around the dinner table, beer bottles lay scattered and toppled. Brother Wang lit another cigarette and took a deep drag. The words he wanted to say never reached his lips — he swallowed them back down with half a mouthful of smoke. “So be it,” he said lightly, and drained the remaining half bottle of Lao Xue (老雪, the Shenyang nickname for Snow Beer) in one go.
“The Shelf Life of Dreams”
“The Last Stubbornness of the Middle-Aged”
“The People and Things I Once Loved Deeply”
“Can’t Let Go, Can’t Have It”
“There’s No Such Thing as a Broad, Smooth Road”
“How Many Unresolved Regrets Must a Life Go Through”
“The Pessimist Saves Himself”
I am a pessimist. I fall intermittently into pessimistic moods and wallow in them — even when I know exactly what state I’m in, I’m powerless to change it.
“Individual Fates Within the Grand Narrative”
In ancient Greece, the Peloponnesian War lasted 28 years; counting the 8-year truce in between, it spanned nearly 40 years — exactly the best years of a generation. What I want to explore is this: within such a grand historical event, facing unending war and conflict, how should an individual choose, and how should one face it?
“A Quantified Life”
I used to be an extremely rational person. I believed in data and process, planned everything in advance, and always had risk assessments and contingency plans ready. Setting goals, making plans, pushing them to execution — these seem to be engraved into my bones. But now, this quantified life is not what I want.
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