Why Do I Write on WeChat?

This article was written on August 15, 2013

Author: Lü Jianfeng

Friends often ask me, why do you write these words on WeChat? Indeed, how did I end up writing about twenty random posts on WeChat?

At first, I thought WeChat was private and I could vent a bit, but later I started to pay attention to the readability and rationality of the content, or maybe I needed a channel to adjust myself.

Those who know me well know that I have a rough personality and easily get impatient, but that's only part of my personality. Before the internet, I loved reading books. I often stayed up for several nights in a row to finish a set of books. Those who have drunk with me know that I get drunk easily; when slightly tipsy, I like to compose various doggerel. Ha, don't try to get me drunk! Back in Beijing, at the book city, you could read all day without buying, and if you didn't finish, you could go back the next day to continue. I used to go there often to read for free. At that time, I had the impression that Mo Yan's books were quite erotic; for a long time, I thought Mo Yan wrote modern erotic novels. Back then, my monthly salary was around a thousand yuan, and life was very tight, but books calmed me down, just like now writing something on my phone makes me feel peaceful, completely forgetting work and life's worries.

Everyone knows that I run a tea website and make a living by selling tea. It seems to be going well, but only I know the pain. We've been doing this for nearly five years, and building our own sales platform outside of Taobao has been really tough. Sometimes I admire myself for still being alive. For a long time, including now, I've been a firefighter, solving one problem after another, exhausted.

Personal issues are even more troublesome. Those who know me know that I've started and closed several companies, and I've never married. In my village, they now educate young people using me as an example, saying, 'Don't be like him, not married even after thirty.' My parents face great pressure, and they put even more pressure on me, but I don't think I must get married immediately. Things like this, a pile of worries.

For a long time, I liked going to bars, the noisier the better. I especially loved the feeling of sitting quietly in a disco bar drinking and chatting up beautiful women. This year, I don't know why, maybe because I'm older, or it's a mindset thing, I suddenly don't like it anymore. It's been over half a year since I last went. After that, I became crazy about watching movies, and when bored, I'd flip through books or check WeChat moments. Sometimes when I see friends' photos and texts, I feel the urge to post something too. I don't like fussing with photos, so I just write randomly, rambling on. I find that typing on my phone really calms me down. As I write, I realize some problems are just farts, and I become much more composed.

Perhaps this is the reason I write on WeChat.