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When We Say "Hang in There", We’d Better Actually Go and Help Hold It Up

·999 words·5 mins
Musings
Kyo
Author
Kyo
0.5x~2x

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Such a template-driven world.

67
Is everyone’s life bittersweet?

66
The elevator’s close button says:
I’m under so much pressure.

65
I no longer have much desire to add internet friends on WeChat.
Just let relationships remain in their specific contexts.

64
Friendships based on “likes” are as bland as water.

63
Before truly signing and sealing the deal, keep a lid on your joy, otherwise you risk adding frost to your happiness.

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When we say “Hang in there”,
We’d better actually go and help hold it up.

61
If your hair is too thick/lush,
You feel embarrassed to say you’re stressed.

60
Holding eight strawberries in my hand,
Marveling at how light they are.

59
A bit of relief hidden within disappointment.
Always miraculously finding self-equilibrium like this.

58
Slept for nearly 9 hours.
Woke up with a tight face.
Sleep more, young people.

57
Writing your own recommendation letter is a bit embarrassing.

56
Jay Chou lost a follower.
It was me who unfollowed him.

55
Guilt is the lowest form of energy.
It lacks creativity and constructiveness.
Look forward.

54
The dentist tonight was so gentle.

53
Bumped into my nephew at the station.
He said he’s going to make some money for a few months,
Then go travel to Tibet.

52
Put a clean suitcase in the back seat.
The driver was so unhappy.

51
When they say there are 8 billion people on Earth,
They are excluding the relatives who just passed away.

50
A 70% win rate,
Is enough.

49
Drawing flowcharts is very therapeutic.

48
The sound of metal trays is uncomfortable.

47
As long as the body is comfortable,
It’s hard for the heart to be uncomfortable.

46
Is the geomagnetic storm over?
Dreamt all night again.

45
Prejudice (Chengjian),
Or Stale views (Chenjian),
Better to turn a blind eye (Unseen/Shi’erbujian).

44
Lunch was decent.
The cashier lady was a bit fierce.
The girl bringing drinks had gentle eyes.

43
“Therapy machine” in Japanese is just “therapy machine”.

42
Investment is necessary.

41
Build a layer of oxygen around your life.
Want to do a good deed?
Go hug someone who lacks oxygen.

40
Trees in the forest can communicate via a “Wood Wide Web”.
Sounds like a joke but it’s true.

39
Contacted Dell support.
It was a lady from Tianjin.
While waiting, I heard her whisper in Tianjin dialect:
“What happened to this monitor?”
Hahaha.

38
When I say I hum’t thought it through,
I actually haven’t started thinking.

37
Impressions of a street need updating every six months.
Shops change, favorite restaurants suddenly disappear.

36
Many people live a good life knowing only a few truths.

35
Even sitting on a team of LLMs, we still need warm communication with real humans.

34
Do it slowly.
0.5x
Do it faster.
2x
Do it slowly again.
0.5x

33
At least need to see that brainwashing, nature, psychological needs, and behavioral inertia are all possibilities.

32
Once you grow up, it’s hard to sleep rotating 360 degrees (around the z-axis).

31
Reality is just not that exquisite.

30
If you can accept being on the verge of a breakdown 30% of the time, the probability of breaking down drops by 30%.

29
A mindset of indebtedness only adds to your troubles.

28
Not being rejected enough means there are still more opportunities to be rejected.

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Using a few similar parameters to project yourself into another life is a bit lazy and dangerous.

26
When can we return to a world with only hard ads and no sponsored content disguised as content?

25
Ranking:
Sentimental and righteous,
Ruthless but righteous,
Sentimental but unrighteous.
There is one more that doesn’t qualify to be ranked.

24
Paying attention to a person costs a bit of energy.
Paying attention to a company costs ten points of energy.
Paying attention to an industry costs a hundred points of energy.
Paying attention to the global situation costs billions of energy.

23
Clichés sing praises of maternal love, but after long-term deep observation, a child’s love for the mother is no less.

22
Set up a “Crying Spot” at home.
————Only allowed to cry here.

21
The cycle of summer:
Roasted all day, here’s a nice sunset as compensation.

20
When pain unfolds bit by bit, maintaining patience and tolerance for those around becomes a necessity.

19
Aging is the subjunctive mood of Dying.

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One day before my grandfather passed away, he told me: Don’t get old, being old is pitiful.

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Everyone starts aging from different parts. The parts you know well are still young, that’s why we say “You haven’t changed a bit.”

16
Courier supermarket, a strange combination.

15
Cognitive downgrade, a subtle form of asset depreciation.

14
Enduring unnecessary hardship is also a kind of psychological need.

13
If you don’t need it, even the best thing is a burden.

12
Just mistook “Cross-border e-commerce” for “Adversity e-commerce”.

11
Mindset is really hard to change, can only patch it up on the surface.

10
Is living for running towards flowers or dodging bullets?

9
Dreamt of catching a flight, all relatives came to see me off, but missed it. Sent off for nothing.

8
Once you’ve thought it through, there isn’t much room for iterative upgrades.

7
Small cake, huge share.

6
Opening a laptop in a business setting, then pulling out an ugly USB dongle, really hard to look elegant.

5
If it feels wrong, retreat immediately.

4
The meanest content on the Chinese internet must be Douban negative reviews. Will large models evolve this capability?

3
Visible and tangible,
Visible and intangible,
Invisible and tangible,
Invisible and intangible.
Which one do you pursue?

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The older generation sometimes likes to praise people publicly at dinners instead of expressing appreciation one-on-one.
Maybe they are too introverted and have to turn on a broadcast to pretend they aren’t speaking to just one person.

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