Standing at the starting point of 2024 and making a list of plans is an essential ritual.
I can't help but think back to when I was a kid and was asked to write a New Year's plan every year, so I thought that the criterion for "passing" was to complete all the entries one by one and get a reward that marked "fulfillment". When you grow up, you realize that the most meaningful times in your life are engraved on the way to these plans, and the happiest moment in life is when you are looking forward to each New Year and you know where you are going.
Every New Year's Day, I have a strong feeling that the past and the present, farewell and encounter, are like a transparent revolving door. The two selves carried by the new year and the old year must "look at each other" at the moment of the turn of fate. After all, this moment is the youngest moment in my future life, and it is inevitable to ask myself at the time of the transition between the old and the new: What are my loves and sorrows?What kind of adult do I want to live?
I have a friend who usually stays at home and doesn't want to travel alone, but she started a rather romantic journey the other day. Her birthday is the end of the year, and "saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new" means a lot. So on the occasion of saying goodbye to 2023, she arranged a special "tour birthday party" for herself, breaking through the "fear of traveling alone", traveling to many cities, contacting friends she hadn't seen for a long time, and leaving her beautiful youth in that strange city.
Welcome the new year in loving and being loved. "Such an opening in 2024 is amazing enough.
Seeing the joys and sorrows, gains and losses of the past year, and touching all the traces that have existed between the sunrise and sunset of the 365 days, you can pick up the courage, accumulate the energy of the whole body, go out with determination and enthusiasm, and draw a new timeline full of vitality and strength.
In the past 2023, I, like many people, have worked hard to re-establish order in life and the laws of the mind. In 2024, this will remain a crucial theme and direction.
In 2024, I will probably have to work very hard to learn the long and profound course of "people", know how to treat others and myself brightly and clearly, cherish every opportunity, and reconcile with myself.
In the past year, netizens have loved to talk about "i people" (introverts) and "e people" (extroverts). To a certain extent, this interesting division provides young people with a small coordinate system to locate themselves and explore others. Especially for me and some of my friends who are also "i-people", the concept provides a comforting footnote to those slightly clumsy, rough and imperfect moments in life.
In 2024, as we continue to come and go, every ordinary person has a precious eye, and every ordinary choice can also be in the dust.
In the distance, nature is still my New Year's wish and that of many others. Although it is thousands of miles, day and night.
In the new year, at work and on the journey, I hope to have the opportunity to travel to more and more rich distances, personally appreciate the scenery in geography books and documentaries, and then try my best to deeply unlock the human narratives in each landmark through my own experience and thinking, and pass on what I think.
Fresh crowds make every geographical space in the world a legend. For individuals, it is also because of understanding and exploration that we become open.
In 2024, in addition to the distance, there will be love and scenery at your fingertips.
One of my important takeaways in the past year is that I cherish my family and family more and more, and I have begun to feel the warmth and pleasure of the "15-minute life circle" in the city where I live and at my doorstep. A small shop that is compatible with the social situation and the people's feelings seems to release more and more charm. Pyrotechnics is always the best "city guide", helping us to meet the vibrant and lively modern city.
Maybe in 2024, I still want to find some unfamiliar, but fascinating, mysterious "lights".
There was once a line from a TV show that the vast majority of doom in the world is unimportant compared to the beauty of exploring the world. Whether it is "The Three-Body Problem" that will land on the screen at the beginning of 2023, "The Wandering Earth 2" during the Spring Festival, or everyone pondering the energy of AI later, and even writers and artists have begun to think about the impact of AI on literary and artistic creation, these have added a different "thought filter" to the whole year.
In the past year, people's attention to science fiction works and discussions of artificial intelligence have added some wonderful colors to our lives that go beyond firewood, rice, oil and salt.
At a forum on the relationship between AI and urban life at the end of 2023, I heard a professional researcher say: "AI can return art to the ontology of art, we can knock out all the parts that can be calculated, and finally retain art as a creative and thinking as a subject overflowing technique to become future practice." The researcher believes that there is no need to discuss whether to use artificial intelligence or not, but how to use artificial intelligence and what kind of collaborative models are used to jointly extend human creativity.
Such a field that seems to be far away from the everyday, but in fact always has a profound impact on the everyday, can't help but look forward to the changes and challenges that humanity will embrace in 2024.
The sun rises and the moon sets, the four seasons flow, and a meaningful life is not only spring and autumn.
It's time to move towards a new and unknown beginning again with the heavy memories, harvests and emotions of the past year. As long as there is love, hope and expectation will always exist and grow indefinitely.
Shen Jiequn **China Youth Daily.
*: China Youth Daily.