About Me & This Blog
Prologue
Many people are trying to follow the expectations of others, parents, relatives, friends, teachers, everyone will set a series of norms to apply to you, intentionally or unintentionally, by people you know or even by strangers. While conforming to the expectations of one party, at the same time refuting the expectations of the other parties, "I hope to be a thoughtful and responsible child in the eyes of my parents”, “I also hope to be a unique, fashionable and different child in the eyes of my friends”, "I also hope to be a young man who pursues the ultimate personal freedom under the call of the media", "I hope to be a perfect self” ... Every book, every movie, everyone is conveying their theory of life to you. Wanting to go a life theory that satisfies everyone, but in the end you will find that many parts are mutually exclusive, and these sets of life theories do not have a common intersection. In this way, the framework of life theory collapses and rebuilds, collapses and rebuilds, repeatedly.
Then there will be a period of nihilism, thinking that any ideological theory is meaningless. Morality and culture are just tools set up by some people for certain purposes in a certain period of time under a certain environment, and these tools are being put on a sacred cloak for the worship of all but the builder. People has since fallen into a stage without any motivation, “I don’t know what the meaning and value of life are”, “why we should work hard”, and “on what direction we need to work hard”, etc.
Later, we found that maybe we need to give up our attachment to "expectations", not only others' expectations of us, but also our expectations of ourselves. We may find that life has no meaning at all. The meaning is just what we make up for ourselves. I can create my life meaning, and you can create yours, each cultural group can also have their own unique life meaning. We cannot evaluate other meanings of life that are different from our own, because each "meaning of life" is their own standard of measurement. (But it only makes sense if this system is a mature, complete, self-consistent logical system, even the meaning system of those who advocate spontaneous lifestyle, there will always be logic)
From the analysis of personal life experience in psychology to the inquiry of the origin of culture, and then to the origin of every thought, every impulse of behavior, and every emotional reaction. I hope to know more about myself, who I am, why I have this idea, this emotional reaction, whether it is a stress response caused by something in the past, or is it some thinking mode I was trained at a certain stage in the past, so that we can make judgments and choices in a truly calm and clear manner, so that we will not be disturbed and restrained by external voices. Only when we truly understand ourselves can we have the ability to make choices that suit us, that is, the right choice. So, slow down, think carefully, and make good decisions, so as to achieve the ultimate "personal freedom".
Purpose of the website
I hope to use this blog to record and share my daily experience, and insights of movie-watching and reading. The fields that the articles may involve include philosophy, psychology, culture, Buddhism, mindfulness, meditation, yoga, etc.
I have many assumptions for my blog, such as reminding readers of the sustainability of mind, the preciousness of attention, and how to achieve true freedom, that is, to achieve complete control over oneself, one's body, one's emotions, and one's thoughts, without being trapped in a cage fabricated by the outside world. But assumption is assumption after all. I accept all possibilities in the future, so as not to shut out unknown surprises because of too much careful calculations.
Secondly, to write the content of these articles, I need to be clear-headed, that is, I need to keep a clear-headed mind to live in daily life, so that I can write valuable insights. At the same time, this writing process will also work synergistically to make me calm down, live seriously, and explore myself, instead of writing chaotic, vague and unreasonable content, just to meet some impetuous "expectations". (As I mentioned above, other people's expectations or their own expectations, they are often confused)
Another reason is that in my daily work, sometimes a series of knowledge of website design and marketing would be needed. Thanks to this blog, I can also have a platform to practice.
Domain name of the website
Mind sustainability, is one of my ideas. With the development of modern science and technology, many advanced electronic devices and programs have been produced to help people for the convenience and efficiency of all aspects of people's lives. The emergence of these new things not only solves problems and makes people's lives more convenient, but also greatly changes people's daily life and work patterns, which has brought about a series of new phenomena, such as the popularity of portable electronic devices (mobile phones, laptops, tablets, smart watches...), and the emergence of various apps. While social networking and news software allow users to obtain news and consultations in a timely manner, they can also make these messages bombard users' brains all the time. The online transformation of work software and the convenience of communication allow remote work to save people's commuting time and flex working hours, but it also confuses the boundaries between work and life, making many people have to maintain a mental state at work even during off hours. Commercial marketing methods such as various coupon- receiving make people wonder whether they are saving money or wasting money. Every message and pop-up window in app, every advertisement, every article title, every promotional picture, and even the use of app colors are trying to attract more attention from users, defraud more stay time, and strive to make every user into a number to be included in the traffic brigade. With the trend of portable electronic devices spreading from head to toe, these massive amounts of information are also getting all the opportunities get into our brain, overloading our mind.
Fragmented life is dominating our rhythm of life, making us unable to keep our attention on one thing for a long time, and this state has caused us many physical and mental problems. Frequent task switching damages attention resources and memory ability. "Information addiction" means that we are always afraid of missing some information, which distracts our energy and causes inexplicable anxiety. We are eager for quick success and instant benefit; If things go on like this for a long time, there will also be procrastination, decreased creativity and speculative ability, and the possibility of depression. These exhausting things in the mind make us have no time to take care of the present, always have some thoughts or ideas in the mind, either recalling the past, or planning the future, and gradually lose the ability to feel the present, the ability to feel oneself and one’s awareness, and the ability to perceive the surrounding environment, so that one becomes confused, loses the ability to think deeply, tends to follow the crowd, and is more susceptible to the influence of others.
The resources of our mind are not unlimited and cannot be squandered. On the contrary, just like natural resources, we need to use them according to the principle of sustainability in order to ensure long-term and healthy development.
Design Principles
As a designer, I usually see too many cool designs, all kinds of sharp color schemes, newfangled typography layouts, dazzling motion effects, every design is trying to compete for a little bit more attention than other designs. But this website's design forgoes those chances of being cool, referencing design principles from Rohan Gunatillake's team's project Designing Mindfulness-A Mindfulness Everywhere Manifesto. I hope that readers can spend less attention to achieve their goals when browsing this website, can read and think more calmly, and find the functions they want to use and the content they want to read more intuitively and familiarly. Other irrelevant elements would not be wanted to interrupt the flow of reading.
Epilogue
Perhaps only those who have gazed into the abyss can understand that what most people take for granted is not normal. In the end, I hope that everyone can realize the sustainability of mind as soon as possible, cherish their attention, gradually improve their awareness and ability to feel happiness, so that let our hearts dwell in the pure land under any noisy circumstances.
