Even though I only worked for three days this week and had the rest of the time off, I still feel exhausted. Of course, a big reason for this is that I didn't sleep well last night. But I have to say that taking time off is really harmful. It ruins vacations, weekends, and subsequently, good moods.
Personal Life:
- I ate too much during the May Day holiday and ended up with two cold sores on my mouth. Having cold sores on the mouth is really painful. It's torture to eat and talk, and since the mouth is a major active area, it's difficult for the sores to scab and heal. I can only wait for time to heal them.
- Our company had a weird team building activity on the weekend. They took up our day off and it was a self-driving trip. Some colleagues with cars drove others over 100 kilometers to a remote farmhouse that closes at 9 PM. The bedroom posters in the farmhouse were of hot girls from the 90s, wearing tank tops and tight pants, lying on their sides. The soundproofing was also terrible. Luckily, I didn't go. Using my day off for a team building activity is like a level one emergency.
- I used to dislike the idea of destiny and the feeling of being trapped by an unchangeable fate. I believed that we could change our destiny. However, recent life experiences have given me some new thoughts. Perhaps the so-called "change" is just another part of destiny. Destiny is not an unchanging curse, but even if you change and your changes are effective, it is still a form of destiny. I forgot which writer said something like this, but the general idea is that "life is like a journey where you don't know where you will end up when you start. But if you look back from the end, you will realize that your life has already followed a predetermined path." For us at the present moment, it may be a fork in the road or a choice, but the options have already been determined. The difference now is that I'm not as resistant to destiny. After all, I am the one experiencing life, and I am just a character in someone else's game, just as others are NPCs in my game world. In the end, we will all end up in a black square room. Since the outcome is already determined, the most important thing is the experience.
- I had a nightmare the night before last. I dreamt that my mom had a car accident and I couldn't reach her by phone. I woke up directly from the dream and called her in a daze. After my mom answered the phone, I hung up. She was a bit scared and said that I had never woken up before 8 AM, so why was I calling at 7 AM? Then my dad woke up too and called me back. I told him it was nothing, just a dream, and that I would go back to sleep. As I get older, my attachment to my family grows stronger. I have always been emotionally dull, and I used to think I could live alone without caring about other people. But now I realize that I have a stronger dependence on my parents than I can remember. It's not about living together; I enjoy living alone. But I want them to exist forever, without aging. I even fear their departure. This is an emotion I have never had before, a profound bond. This is probably what family love is.
- I didn't get enough rest this week and need to make up for sleep. My sleep is cyclical, averaging over 8 hours a day, with a week as the cycle. It's okay to sleep less today, but I must make up for it in a few days, otherwise my body won't be able to handle it and I'll be in a constant state of shutdown (writing this report is confusing, I can barely keep my eyes open).
- I haven't felt much difference from using the posture correction cushion yet. The main user is my cat, and judging by his frequency of use, he really likes the cushion.
Work:
- Work is a chaotic thing because you have to follow other people's rules for most of the time. My company has opened my eyes. We have to write daily reports three times a day: a morning work plan, a midday work progress and afternoon work arrangement, and an evening work summary. We also have to write weekly reports and monthly reports. In addition to all this, we have a morning meeting every day, a weekly meeting every week, and a monthly meeting every month. This week happened to be the monthly meeting for May. Eight hours a day, four hours of meetings. It's the first time I've encountered such a weird company, and it's in the advertising industry. It's quite shocking, truly a different world. If it were in the past, I probably wouldn't be able to tolerate it for a day, but now my mindset has changed. Unless it crosses my bottom line, these things don't really bother me. As for why I can tolerate it, that's a secret.
- I finished a project in two days and didn't have to work overtime. When I was rushing to complete the project, I felt like a powder keg about to explode. But the urgency of time actually sparked my inspiration and increased my efficiency. I enjoy working because I enjoy the pressure and anxiety that work brings. Only when I complete a task do I feel a sense of accomplishment and breakthrough. A challenging life makes me feel alive. If work has no pressure and relies solely on experience and repetitive tasks, and anxiety comes solely from within, then there's no need to wait to be replaced by artificial intelligence because you've already been replaced by automation. A downward life is not worth living, and neither is downward work.
- The advertisements made by Shutian Advertising are really good. It's been a long time since I've seen such impressive advertisements. From the perspective of creativity, branding, products, and consumers, you can see their thinking. There's a lot to learn from them.
- The promotional videos made by Sichuan Tourism and Longdao are not that great, at least in my opinion. Artistic films are too commercial, and commercial films are too artistic. This is a common problem in the market right now. But I think advertising is not that complicated, nor is it so high and mighty. If a city's tourism advertisement is not something you want to show to your family or friends, and they don't understand it, then regardless of whether it's cyberpunk or avant-garde art, the advertisement has already lost its target audience. Of course, this advertisement has sparked a lot of discussion, with some people saying that the public's aesthetic needs to be improved and that it is a criticism of the current state of affairs.
- Advertising is subjective, but there are good and bad advertisements. For example, the five Dr. Elevator advertisements I saw in the elevator last month made me feel physically uncomfortable. I felt like those advertisements were going to be criticized. They were targeting female audiences, but ended up being vulgar. As expected, they recently became a hot topic, but some people think that the fact that this advertisement has generated so much discussion means it has already succeeded. All I can say is that if half of the people in the advertising industry feel the same way, then advertising is doomed to decline.
Conclusion:
I don't want to summarize anymore. That's it.