Sina Feelings Beautiful Prose (Volume 3) - Only Love, No Love

Author: Editorial Department of Sina Love & Life Essays
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Publish Date: 2005-04-01
Features: Walking in the unreal of the real world, venting the real in the virtual world. "Sina Love & Life Essays" is an internet digest publication focused on emotional and life themes, jointly launched by Desayi Culture Institution and Sina Forum Channel. "Sina Love & Life Essays" aims to establish a platform for emotional exchange and free expression for all who love the internet and real life. Here, we can share our feelings, record past stories, listen to others' confessions, and share everyone's experiences. Desayi Culture Company, as a renowned book planning and investment institution, has combined its long-term success in book planning with Sina's resources and brand advantages to jointly create "Sina Love & Life Essays," hoping to bring readers a brand-new interactive reading experience.
In moments of loneliness or happiness, who doesn’t like to share their feelings with everyone? Thus, loneliness fades with expression, while happiness intensifies. The storms of reality are too harsh, forcing us to hide behind layers of masks to protect our bodies and souls. What people show to the outside world is often a face behind a mask, with their hearts shrouded in increasingly heavy darkness, suffocating and unable to find an escape. In such moments, venting becomes the best choice.
Traditional venting usually involves finding a suitable place and person to talk about fitting topics. However, this kind of venting is highly dependent on the setting and audience. Without a beautiful environment or a patient listener, the venting becomes dull and lingering. The listener may become restless, while the speaker, though eloquent, lacks applause and guidance. In the end, the one venting becomes even more sorrowful, and the one grieving grows sadder. Even when venting about happiness and joy, it becomes tasteless and gradually loses its vibrancy. Such venting not only fails to achieve its purpose but even backfires.
When the internet emerged, people who felt stifled finally found another way to vent, another outlet for their souls. Anyone could freely express themselves, unrestrained. And the listeners were countless, actively responding with words—agreeing, disagreeing, sympathizing, or mocking. Diverse and genuine, they were nothing like the and hypocrisy of real-world listeners. Stripping off the mask of reality and donning the cloak of the internet, in a virtual world, we can record our true selves. Under the truth of reality, they had to hide their true selves, but in the virtual world, we can be fearless.
Loved, hurt. Left, thought. Parted, scattered. Done, forgotten. Recording love, pain, separation, and joy in words to vent our joys and sorrows. On the internet, no one knows who you are. You can set down the heavy burdens of reality and express yourself freely. After hitting the last Enter key, take a deep breath and then happily hide behind the screen, pour a cup of fragrant coffee, and wait for the listeners to make their entrance.
Such venting is effortless and natural, without pretense or affectation. Such words need not be beautiful—just expressive, just real. Such feelings, though solitary in loneliness, are not lonely, nor unbearable. At this moment, you begin to be your true self. You need not care about the opinions or feelings of the listeners—everything belongs to you, whether happy or sad.
Navigating the internet, when you see others' words that resonate with your emotions, 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 fleeting, slipping away unnoticed. But when recorded on the internet, when sorrow strikes, flipping through those long-missed words can past joys and see the friends who shared them. Thus, sorrow fades, and joy flows back into your heart.