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Future plans written on the front

I decided to delete the drafts I wrote the previous month and rewrite them all. For no other reason, for me, writing on Matters is about being honest with myself. If you feel completely different at the moment, but you still want to write this kind of words, it is against your heart.

The draft I made in early September, I didn't press the dark green "Publish" button for a long time, so I put it in the draft area, and it took more than a month to put it on. The current time of writing is 9:00 pm on October 14, 2021, which should be different from the release time, because I plan to publish the fixed release time of future articles on Friday.

So I posted it at 00:10 on 10/15, it should still be counted as "Friday", right?

However, since I have something to do, I plan to "write it first" and then press the "publish" button that has been waiting for me for more than two months when the time is up. Writing it in advance like this, I finally have to set a certain rule for writing here, and tell myself: I have to write at least a week anyway, and this kind of planning is something I have never had on Matters before .

This is the regular time update for my return decision. Compared with the "super-Buddhist management method" in the past, this time, I finally started to try to use a little bit of heart, and what does it mean to be "a little bit of heart"? For me, it's a fixed time submission.

"SOP"

What have you been doing these months?

I joined Matters when I left college students in June 2021, and after publishing a lot of articles intensively for about a month, I suddenly feel a little complicated about writing here. It's just because I have no idea about the operation of the writing platform , and I only complain in secret: "How can those who write boring articles be seen by so many people?"

It is also because Matters advertises the purpose of "creative value". Strictly speaking, it can be said to be a special platform with almost zero cost writing, but it can still generate a small amount of income. However, the "time cost" to be paid is indeed unquestionable.

This was the first lesson I learned here: where time is spent, where is the achievement.

About the same time that I started to reduce the update frequency, probably in late July 2021, the "Tianma case" broke out in Matters, which became the last straw to promote the transformation and reform of the entire platform. Although I didn't participate in the various debates, but as a creator watching from the sidelines, I couldn't help but sigh in my heart: O people!

This is the most recent "big event" I've heard of. If anything happens during this time, or how the clap mechanism has changed, I haven't started researching it at all, so I have to wait for me to slowly climb various Text, add knowledge, or have friends to share.

So far away, back to the previous question.

So what have you been doing these months? What does "SOP" mean? Why do you want to run back and write?

The best answer for me is the last question. There are two main reasons. The first is that I have mentioned it many times in other articles. It is purely for myself, not for any special reason.

Second, it is the biggest variable under the category of "self". In fact, it is not exactly "the personality trait of this person" but "the trait of the self in the eyes of others" . What does this mean? A few sentences seem a bit eloquent. Wouldn't it be nice to simply quote the first article I posted here to explain?

The original motivation for coming to Matt City was "desiring to see and be seen more, and to seek closer interaction and communication." For me, this "second motivation" has never changed. It's a sentence that can only be written if you are poisoned by philosophy.

Its meaning is the ideal personality in my mind. He must have other people in his heart, but it is not to give himself up completely, but to put himself in the shoes of others to understand what others think by putting others' understanding of himself first.

I don't really like to use too simple and straightforward explanations. Maybe you will say after reading this: Isn't it a simple concept of "getting to know yourself through others"? But this is indeed my favorite way of expression. I deeply believe that words that seem to have the same meaning will definitely have different effects when interpreted by different people.

This kind of arbitrary behavior has no structure at all. It can almost be said that the style of writing whatever I want to write is what I want to write the most in my heart. I usually write too many articles with a clear structure and a clear main axis because of my work, especially the papers I often write as a graduate student. Oh, I finally return to the definition of "SOP".

Status and thanks

The call for writing is the second article I wrote here, and here is also the first time I received a tip from @Sun Li, and it was the first time I found that writing alone can get support.

Around the end of July, because the family was in urgent need of money, although Matt City’s writing was considered to be an ideal job of “earning income directly through text production” , the income was too low. So, not long after I stopped updating intensively, I simply went here to apply for a writer, also a part-time job of writing.

Every job will have a familiar time, and if you are too skilled, it will easily become a SOP-like formalization. Writing alone, no matter how the work changes, fascinates me. Even if there is a possibility of SOP, I will not get bored and it is the most acceptable job for me.

Later, I found out that the articles written at work are for students to do reading tests, so they must have narrative essays with clear themes and structures. However, I wouldn't stop doing it because of the magic power of "writing" itself. In contrast, what I really wanted to write in my heart has been deposited until now.

Just like the one who @ could not leave a message in my short article a while ago, the person who went up to the mountain to practice retreat training, this time is back ; I also thank @readbigeng for giving me advice on running Matters in those days, this time I finally have to Try to practice. As predicted by my favorite creator here, @車斯人女, who is also a hard-working graduate student , after the school starts, it will be too difficult to produce high-quality articles stably.

Thank you to every friend who has supported me, @Esther Miller, who is also a Christian , as well as @IrisChen and @张云志 who are willing to support my article on " Restaging ", as well as those who are willing to help me The world-weary article rewarded @Azure Sky, and there are too many friends that I may have overlooked, but I think it's really "thank you" .

Finally, I suggest @Matty to add a small function, that is, "the ability to set the release time" is similar to Gmail's ability to schedule the delivery time in advance. I don't know if there is a chance to achieve this? Do other creators feel the same way?

Finally, here is my favorite sentence:

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
—Winston Churchill

Creation does not matter success or failure, I hope each of us can continue to express ourselves bravely, willfully, and stubbornly on the road of creation.

I'm back.