Every wonderful journey has an insignificant beginning

When I pushed back the clock to the summer of 2016, the 24-year-old did something small but interesting, which was to create my own public account and start writing on it. Why I started writing, I have forgotten the original reason, may be the same as I am now writing, but there is something in my heart that needs to be expressed, but for a while there is no particularly suitable object or some words are not suitable for anyone to talk to in person, so it is presented in the way of writing, it is as simple as that, nothing more.

Honestly, I have never regarded writing as a very big thing, especially in this era of self-media development, isn't there a saying that everyone is self-media, and everyone has the opportunity to become an Internet celebrity. This is true, especially in recent years similar to the rise of vibrato, fast hand or something, we have witnessed too many myths of overnight wealth, we have seen too many stories of grassroots fame, traffic has become the most X factor, it seems that as long as there is traffic, everything is available.

Some time ago and a friend who used to do public accounts is very cattle chat, he and I sighed: "The current public account reading volume is really not as good as a day, before casually writing 100,000 +, now eager to rack their brains to create a variety of hot spots, but as long as the article is long, the bloody background big data will tell me, what is the average reading time of your article, what is the click rate, and the conclusion is that people now don't talk about reading books, and even the patience to read a slightly deeper article is gone." ”

At this point, I admit that I am a relatively old-fashioned person, of course, I do not reject TikTok, Kuaishou, but compared to video and even audio, I prefer text, such as audio, a paragraph to read 10 minutes of content, if I read the text, I may pick out the key points, I can read it all in five minutes, and the remaining five minutes can do something else. I also like to read longer and in-depth articles, sometimes it is not that the short videos are not doing well, but on the contrary, I think they are doing too well, so that they deprive the reader or the audience of the space to imagine, and in the text, I can get what I want.

Speaking of myself, it seems that I have no specialty since I was a child, in addition to liking basketball, I still barely take the shot of writing essays, from elementary school to high school, I don't know how many times my essays have been used as model texts, but that's all, because writing in my student days is more about getting scores, rather than getting the approval of others or resonating with others. Until I started writing online in 2016, I was surprised to find that sometimes an article I wrote myself could get millions of readers, and even some readers and friends left me messages late at night, telling their respective stories and confusions.

At the same time, because of writing, I also know a lot of friends in the south and the north of the sea, some of which have spread to reality and intersected; and some friends are only called pen pals, and only communicate about writing. In fact, no matter how deep or shallow, it has subverted my cognition and made me feel that I am no longer lonely, because there are so many people who love the same things as you, and there are so many readers who face the same problems, troubles, or happiness as you. Maybe they are different from you, the age difference is also very large, and the background of all aspects is different, but it is precisely because of one of your articles that you have a connection, just like the glimmer of light in the vast dark night, although insignificant, but it really illuminates each other.

From 2016 to now, I have written more than 300,000 words, saying luck or hard work, many coincidences collided together so that I have the first book in my life this year, and the content of this book is actually what I have thought and thought along the way, as well as what I know and experience. But an interesting thing is that when I first got the book and opened it to read, although every word in it was written by me, there was a sudden sense of strangeness, I don't know if it was the reason for narcissism, originally I thought those words that were a little childish, now seem to have some sense, which makes people feel very happy to read.

Of course, the process of publishing this book is not easy, there are many times in the middle of the revision to the moment of collapse, but here is a good friend of mine, one year I talked about my New Year's wishes in the New Year video he shot, one of which was to publish a book, I remember that some elders, uncles, friends and colleagues at that time, after watching this video, they were unanimously sneering at me, and many people spoke directly and even ruthlessly to me: "Just like you still publish a book? "Yes, publishing a book may not be a very good thing at the moment, but I want to say that even so, you who love not to deny others at will can't do it, and although I don't have any great ability, as long as I dare to say it, I will have a mission." 」

Well, there are some who have not nagged so much, usually write what they must be closely related to the theme, this article is written like a flow account, and what I really want to say is actually just: this is just the beginning, even if it is out of this book, I also feel that this is the beginning of what I wrote, just like the title I wrote, although this journey began insignificant, but as long as you don't stop, keep going, keep going, I think there will always be good luck and surprises.

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