recorded value

October 9, 2025

Life itself is a process of solving problems, and this long process allows everyone to accumulate various experiences.

Experience gradually matures your skills and mind. This is the value of experience.

Recording is to fix the value of experience. This is the value of recording.

For example, when learning a language, you will naturally feel a sense of accomplishment after learning it, but don’t forget to record your learning experience. This can be regarded as an incidental benefit besides learning the language, killing two birds with one stone.

There are many such examples. A period of fitness results, passing a professional examination, a renovation, the acquisition of various skills, or the struggle against illness, psychological confusion and self-healing process of psychological problems are all worth recording. Many years later, some of the contents of these records will be precious.

Recording can be developed into a habit. Through long-term recording, there will be surprises. Unfortunately, I didn't understand it when I was young and missed a lot.

Records are not just casual notes. They need to be organized and stored just like a room. Think about the photos and videos taken on your mobile phone a few years ago. How many of them will you find and look at again? Some photos I didn’t even know existed, but I was surprised when I saw them by chance and wondered when they were taken. There are many things worth recording in life that have been missed. Is it because there is no time or energy, or is the weight distribution of various things in life wrong? It is easy for people to get entangled in the constant repetition of things that can never be solved every day and miss the more important things. It is not just records, but there may be many important things. The importance of some things will only be revealed when time is considered.

Sharing some records will expand their value and allow others to benefit. Even if it is a very small experience, a small number of people or even just one person who has a similar situation to you will benefit. This is value amplification.

This is what I was thinking after work today.

I have recovered a bit today. I watched a video of a YouTube blogger from Taiwan, Zhang Xiu Xiu, who shared a book called "Anything You Want". The content tells the story of a one-person company. I downloaded it online. I couldn't find the Chinese version, so I could only read the English version. I read some. Fortunately, the language expression is relatively simple, it seems not difficult, smooth, and the truth is deep. I found it to be a good book. I am happy and read it slowly. Download link for this book (Android users should import WeChat to read, Apple users recommend importing the book app)

I was a little interested in the blogger, so I clicked on the channel homepage to take a look. There is a personal website. When I went to the personal website, I was inspired from the page design to the content. I had new ideas for my own website. After implementing it, I found that there were still new things to learn and I had a head start. As long as it is something you like, you are not afraid of doing it.

The room was stuffy this afternoon, and the air conditioner only solved the heat but not the stuffiness, so I carried my computer and went to the cafe run by a foreigner. There was a shelter for stray cats in the courtyard of the cafe. It was actually a tin box painted pink and green. It was quite cute. There was often some cat food in it, so that day I saw it, but today I found that there were actually a few stray cats here. They were quite beautiful, with clean and shiny fur, and they didn’t look like stray cats. As soon as I got closer, several cats raised their heads and quickly moved away. They were very agile and stayed away. This proved to be stray cats. They have the nature of wild cats and are real cats.

Foreigners just have the idea to open a cafe and turn it into a stray cat sanctuary.

After sitting in the cafe for two hours, I came out and went directly to Jiangda Hospital. I asked if there was a green channel for the elderly, which could shorten the time for getting medicine and seeing a doctor. The answer was no. Many of the people who came to see the doctor were elderly people, and they were all in the green channel, which could no longer be green.

Before returning to the community, I went to sit down in the wetland park opposite. In the wooden pavilion on the plank road by the lake, there were two grandmas sitting downstairs from me. They had rarely chatted before. One of them still had some objections to me. Several times in the winter, I parked my car and blocked the place where she was drying her quilt at the door. She always "grieved" and ignored me. This time I went up and had a chat, the misunderstanding was cleared up, and we came back together happily. I also said that I often pluck the onions grown on the fence of your yard and use them for cooking. She laughed and said no wonder there were so few of them. I said that the onions of yours were all growing all over the fence and it was a disaster.

When I arrived at the community, I happened to meet Uncle Feng, who is 83 this year and in good condition. He was an old colleague of my mother's in the office, or a subordinate of my mother to be precise. My mother was the leader of the video team in the 702 Institute. One woman was in charge of six or seven men. The video team was the only video department in the institute. Now it is said that it shoots videos and edits videos. The equipment of the recording department of national units is imported from Sony Japan. Wuxi TV station even came to borrow equipment. That was in the 1980s. Uncle Feng has artistic talent and likes to play music, chess, calligraphy and painting. He is good at calligraphy and painting, and he can also play the erhu. A few years ago, when he was still physically and mentally, he had thousands of fans online by playing the erhu. When he went to the wet market to buy groceries, the fan aunties recognized him and asked for a photo. . . After chatting for a while, he was going to go fishing in a few days after it cooled down. I told him to teach me how to fish, so he called me before we went and we came together.

Tomorrow Zhang Fan will come to Wuxi from his hometown of Qingyuan, Guangdong. He studied oil painting after graduating from the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, and now works as a painter in Hong Kong. Broadly speaking, he is the right professional. He has lived up to the four years of hard study at the Academy of Fine Arts and the high tuition fees.

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