Matters newcomer punch card｜Remember that writing is a happy thing again

I remember when I was in elementary school, my school had some weird reward systems, one of which was the Rainbow Doctoral system to encourage reading, where students could go to the library to borrow books (or read their own extracurricular books), and then follow up with them. The library receives the manuscript paper of reading experience, which has a fixed writing format. After writing it, return it to the library. The teacher will make corrections to see if it passes the teacher's review. If you pass 10 pieces of experience, you will get a red doctor. The citation for passing 20 is Dr. Orange, followed by yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet, and so on. When I was a child, how could I understand so much? My classmates wrote and I followed along. For a period of time, I kept reading and writing like crazy. Later, I thought it was too slow to submit one by one. , I was full of expectations after submitting it, and I felt that I could collect the first Red Doctor Award very quickly. A week later, I sent back my experience. I handed in 10 copies, and only one passed. The teacher wrote the one that passed. : Actually, it needs to be strengthened, but since you handed in 10 copies, I will let you pass one.

Teacher, you wrote this lightly, but in the heart of a 10-year-old child, there is an indescribable feeling of boredom. I remember that I did not submit another experience later, but the reading habit was so deeply rooted in my heart. I grew up. It’s probably the same comment. I started writing by myself, mostly random, I wrote whatever I wanted, and occasionally submitted articles, but most of them ended up without success. The first time I received the manuscript fee, when I was in middle school, I voted for a monthly magazine and published it I happily ran to the post office to cash the check that the agency gave me. It was 300 yuan. For me, it was like winning the high lottery jackpot in the ten consecutive rounds, so cool!

For me as a little kid, writing articles is to find a sense of achievement that I rarely get in life (after all, I am poor in reading, bad in sports, and not like painting, so I have to fight with him with a pen). When it was a little bigger, the nameless station began to prevail, hey yes! I started to follow the trend again, and I have been writing from high school to college. As a student, when my hands are in my pockets, I have time to write everything. Even if I get scratched by a utility knife in art class, I can use it to break a piece. It was like this until Wuming closed the stall, I also went out of the society, and my writing was placed like this, until I came to Australia for a working holiday.

I didn’t bring a computer on my first year of working vacation. I didn’t have internet access when I was living in the country. I had nothing to do after get off work, so I just found scrap paper and wrote down what I saw and heard, so many of my working vacation articles were all handwritten at the beginning. , until later, those papers began to be scattered all over my backpack, and gradually became soft and rotten. I was a little worried that these words would be accidentally lost by me. I just moved to a place with Internet, so I decided to create a fan page to put all the After recording the experience, I bought a laptop and started to digitize it (speaking as if I lived in a cave before)

It was 2015. We-media was not as popular as it is now. My little fan page inexplicably grew to more than 2,000 people. How it grew to that number is still a mystery. Later, my life changed dramatically. , I haven't updated since 2017. I haven't read or written for three years, and I'm fighting with life every day. The emptiness in my heart expands with time. After the closure of Australia in 2020, I work from home. It's been a few years. It was the first time that I stayed at home for so long, and I had more time to stop and talk to myself. Australia slowly returned to normal life from the closure of the city. I returned to the office to work again, but I had a feeling that I could not go back. Suddenly Wake up, I've been working so hard these past few years, I've been busy with other people's business, I haven't done anything for myself, maybe I should stop and make a little effort for what I want to do, that's it, little Ideas are beginning to sprout, but they are not yet very clear.

Until one day, I was talking to a friend about starting a business online, and I joked: You need to have a professional in starting a business, I know nothing, create a fart!

The friend said casually: I remember you are quite good at writing articles, isn't that your specialty, and you are so good at talking shit, don't think yourself a waste over there, it's not your turn to be a waste.

That night, I opened a fan page that I hadn’t clicked for a long time, and published my first article in three years. Then I spent a few weeks learning to create and improve a blog, and I started to create after work and schoolwork. Sometimes I clearly got off work. I was very tired, but once I started writing, I could keep going on happily, and I often came back to my senses at three or four in the morning. That’s when I understood what writing meant to me, not for that one. The certificate of merit is not for the 300 yuan manuscript fee, but for the process of having a dialogue with myself and clarifying my inner appeal. Every time I finish writing an article, my heart will be very calm. It is a kind of emotional catharsis, because there is too much to say, all Putting it in the text makes me feel the pleasure of "the wish has been fulfilled", and it is also an explanation to myself, because finally, I am doing something for myself, although it is a little bit every time, but at least it is for myself. Done, I remembered again that writing is something that makes me happy.

Going back to the way of self-media management again, the ecology is no longer the same. About 90% of my fan page readers have disappeared. I accidentally found Matters as a writing platform. With the mentality of giving it a try, I put a few articles here. , Although I have only been here for more than two weeks, I really feel that everyone on this platform supports reading and creation. It has an atmosphere very different from other platforms, and the friendly interactive environment also makes me more willing to start taking the initiative to leave messages. Or interaction, this is a place that reassures me. I believe that the common value of such users will generate more good cycles in the future, allowing all creators and readers to have a better environment and benefit each other. .

With the beginning of 2021, I hope that I can go a step further in writing, be a little citizen in Matt, and share the joys, sorrows and joys of life with you.

I'm Stella, an old international student who is rolling in Australia. I will continue to share with you all kinds of travel, overseas life and other notes. This is a belated newcomer's check-in card. I'm very happy to join you. Thank you once, now, and in the future. , I like my articles. You are welcome to leave a message and chat with me at any time. I like this kind of serious talk!

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