Written on the edge of 2023

Time always flies so fast that people are caught off guard. As we walk, it is already the last day of 2023.

Every year at this time, I write something, whether it is a sense of ritual or a habit, it is a summary of the year.

The writer's assistant is getting smarter and smarter, and it helped me calculate the data early: a total of 56 chapters were updated this year, less than 150,000 words, which is indeed much less than the 230,000 words in 2022. The assistant was very considerate and didn't say I was lazy. He also praised me for being ahead of 92.6% of the writers on the site. Even the criticism was so warm, which was really gratifying.

What is even more gratifying is that there are more readers urging updates than last year.

In this era of short videos, readers have more and more entertainment options to choose from, including long, medium and short videos, followed by audio, and then photos. Text is not dominant, but reading text can stimulate people's imagination. Imagination brings the beauty of people's imagination, and a beautiful text will appear in people's minds. If you only watch videos made by others, it will be more like indoctrination, and you will lose a lot of the joy of imagination.

People may not remember the short videos they have watched before, and they are easily lost in the long river of time, but the books he/she read when he/she was young and the sentences that impressed him/her may stay with him/her. life.

Powerful words can last forever and exist forever, giving people different insights at every stage of life.

So I plan to make "keep writing, work hard not to collapse, work hard to write better, and work hard to do more" as next year's goal.

I still remember that when I was a kid, I was learning new concepts. There was a lesson about what someone’s New Year’s resolutions were, but in the end none of them came true. As the Chinese old saying goes, things can be accomplished through secrets, and failures can be revealed through words. It seems that I want to achieve this goal. It’s not easy either.

I have stopped updating from New Year's Day to April in 2023, but I can't stop this time because I haven't finished writing.

The New Year's bell is about to ring. I wish everyone a Happy New Year! In good health!

Heiko

2023.12.31