Sina Feelings & Beautiful Prose, Issue 3: Only Love, No Romance

Author: Compiled by the Editorial Department of Sina Love and Life Literature
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Publishing Date: April 1, 2005
Features: Walking in the unreal of the real world, venting truthfully in the virtual world. Sina Love and Life Literature is an internet digest publication primarily focused on emotional and life themes, jointly launched by Desale Culture and the forum channel of Sina.com. Sina Love and Life Literature aims to establish a platform for emotional exchange and free expression for all who love the internet and real life. Here, we can pour out our hearts, record past stories, listen to others' confessions, and share everyone's experiences. As a renowned investment and planning institution for best-selling books, Desale Culture has combined its long-term success in book planning with Sina.com's resources and brand advantages to jointly create Sina Love and Life Literature. The hope is to bring readers an entirely new interactive reading experience.
In both loneliness and happiness, we all love to share our feelings with everyone. Thus, loneliness fades as we confide, while happiness intensifies through expression. The storms of reality are too harsh, forcing us to hide our bodies and souls behind layers of masks. What people see is often a face wearing a mask, with a soul shrouded in increasingly heavy darkness, making it hard to breathe and find an escape. In such moments, confiding becomes the best choice.
Traditional confiding usually follows this pattern—finding a suitable place, meeting the right person, and discussing the right topic. However, this kind of confiding is very dependent on the setting and the audience. Without a beautiful environment or a patient listener, the confiding becomes gloomy and drawn-out. The listener may become restless and impatient, while the speaker, though brilliant, lacks applause and guidance. In the end, the one confiding grows more sorrowful, and the one grieving becomes even sadder. Even if the topic is happiness and joy, it loses its flavor and gradually fades away. Such confiding not only fails to achieve its purpose but even backfires.
When the internet emerged, people stifled with emotions finally found another way to confide, another outlet for their souls. Anyone could freely pour out their feelings, unrestrained. And the listeners were countless, actively responding with words—agreeing or disagreeing, sympathizing or mocking—diverse and genuine, unlike the and hypocrisy of real-world listeners. Stripping off the mask of reality and donning the cloak of the internet, we can record our true selves in a virtual world. Under the truth of reality, they must hide their true selves, but in the virtual world, we can be fearless.
Loved, hurt. Walked, thought. Left, scattered. Did, forgot. Recording love, pain, separation, and using words to pour out joy and sorrow. On the internet, no one knows who you are. You can set down the heavy burdens of reality and express freely. After hitting the last Enter key, take a deep breath and then happily hide behind the screen, pour a cup of rich coffee, and wait for the listeners to make their grand entrance.
Such confiding is light and natural, without pretense or affectation. Such words need not be beautiful—just expressive, just real. Such feelings, though shared in solitude, are not lonely or unbearable. At this moment, you begin to be your true self. You need not care about the opinions or emotions of the listeners; everything belongs to you, whether happy or sad.
Navigating the internet, when you see others' words that resonate with your feelings, you naturally pause, finding your own existence in their confessions and becoming a listener yourself. once said: In a long life, joy always appears and fades quickly—the most beautiful moments are always the ones that leave the fastest. Joy is too short, always slipping away unnoticed. But when recorded on the internet, when sorrow strikes, you can reread those long-missed words, relive past joys, and see the friends who once shared them with you. Thus, sorrow fades, and joy flows back into your heart.