I have seen others write year-end summaries before, and some people wait until the middle of the following year to write the summary for the previous year. Now, let me set a precedent by writing the year-end summary in advance.
Review of the Year#
Unlike the unpredictable nature of 2020, we have become accustomed to the pandemic in 2022, and it no longer surprises us. My parents, who are medical workers, are still assigned to work during critical times. Around September this year, my mother received a thank-you letter from our city's epidemic prevention and control headquarters, praising her as the "most beautiful retrograde warrior." There was also a certificate of honor, which is not very common for people who have been working for a long time, right?
In March of this year, the first version of the Chinese blog list navigation was launched. I still can't imagine what it will be like. At the moment, it seems that I only hold a number of blogs that can be proud of... In addition, I helped improve the situation of the review process.
Actually, there were only a few things throughout the year. If we really talk about those things now, they don't have much meaning. It's not because the blog list navigation has connected the entire blogosphere. It's not because we have made progress in the ecosystem of OpenWrt. To put it plainly, we haven't been busy this year, we haven't done anything this year.
In June 2022, it was the month of the high school entrance examination. I still remember it now: when the broadcast announced "candidates can enter the examination room," we crossed the cordon and slowly went upstairs. As I walked up the stairs, the broadcast played the exam instructions, and almost all the scenes of the three years of junior high school flashed before my eyes at that moment. Ah! If you say time passes quickly, it was only in September that I entered high school, and now it's already the mid-term exam. If you say time passes slowly... the three years of junior high school didn't pass slowly either. Look, it's gone in the blink of an eye.
So what was I busy with in junior high school? Busy, busy, but what is there to miss about high school? When it comes to the moment of the end of life, and you look back on what you have done in your life, what is there in high school that can make me nostalgic? In the long river of time, we individuals are so fragile that we can only gently sing our own songs on a swaying wooden boat.
Some roommates in the dormitory have lost their loved ones, and one of them has never seen their own grandmother. I have not experienced the pain of losing a loved one, but I can imagine what it means to lose someone for a person. Death is so close, and yet so terrifying.
Now some of our classmates want online classes, including myself before. But now I think, what does online classes mean? It means there have to be cases, it means there are people losing their health. To derive the joy of playing games and skipping online classes from the pain of others, it seems a bit unethical to think about it now.
Once during a physical education class, I had a conversation with a seventh grader. The childish tone, the innocent questions, it seemed like I saw myself in seventh grade or even elementary school pretending to know everything. Ah! Time passes so quickly that I can't sit quietly under a big tree and sing the new songs I have learned.
This year, it was Sri Lanka first, and now it's Lebanon. The surging waves of the world have washed up on one small country after another. The fate of the people of the world is interconnected, and we are all not doing well. If you say the world is peaceful, can you still put down a quiet desk? If you say the world is not peaceful, our situation seems to be getting more and more severe.
After the mid-term exam this year, I played "Genshin Impact". At least it is a virtual world that I can be nostalgic about now. It brought me joy, a kind of free joy at that time.
Things to Do Next Year#
In my psychology class, my high school demanded "happiness, busyness, and maintaining good health" from me. Now that I think about it, I'm not happy when the mid-term exam results come out, I'm not busy when I'm idle every day, and my health is not good either.
There were no milestone events this year, and I feel very inferior and guilty because this year I was busy with things that seem meaningless to me now.
Now, with the support of my parents, I am bringing my website back to China so that I can write blogs with peace of mind. Without being disturbed by the current situation, I can cultivate my own piece of land on the Internet.
I really like making plans. I write plans for weekends at school, hoping to accomplish more things on weekends. But when it really comes to the weekend, I throw the plans out of my mind and don't care about anything. It's also difficult for me to look ahead to the next year and not write New Year's resolutions.