Ling (吴令飞, left) and Jason (张煜, right)
English Introduction
Welcome to 2017, my friends.
I hope you will like Lu Gu (meaning "yesterday once more"), the Podcast project which Jason and I have been working on for a while. It is going online now.
Jason and I got to know each other in Hong Kong six years ago, when we were trying to find roommates - what a awfully small and aggressively expansive apartment we ended up in ! After that, I moved
to the United States, Phoenix at first, and then Chicago. Jason went back to China and got settled down in Beijing.
Standing on the edge of our early thirties, we find our adult lives does not get into a stable, smooth track, as something that was expected by the younger versions of us. Instead, the journey is rocky and things tend to fall apart at any moment.
In our weekly calls, we exchange news in life, as well as the refreshing thoughts we collected. We both learned how to drive, and had car accidents. We both lost our jobs, and then found new ones. We were both dating girls, Jason got married, and I broke up with my ex. We constantly built up stereotypes based on our limited experience, and then embraced new events that would shake those stereotypes. We were expecting, complaining, and mumbling. Days and nights were just passing in front of us without even being noticed.
Then, there comes this Podcast. We started to invite friends to join our conversation, to review the awkward moments and tough times in life, in a gentle way. Life is a complex problem set: submitting a paper, applying for a job, surviving in a new city, finding the significant other. Sometimes we achieved success, but more often, we didn't.
When we fail, we lean on each other and learn collectively. I hope this Podcast would work as a beacon of light in a dark sea, whoever are struggling and about to drown in the water, when they saw this glowing light, will know that there is still hope, as always be.
You can subscribe to our Podcast from Apple Podcasts.
Chinese Introduction
大家好，欢迎来到2017年。我的老朋友张煜和我做的中英文播客《如故》上线了。
从在香港漂泊时算起，我们认识已经有六七年了。我辗转来到芝加哥，张煜辗转回了北京。忽然之间，我们就过了三十。
生活并不像我们年少时期待的那样，进入一劳永逸的轨道，反倒常常有分崩离析的危险。
每周一次的电话里，我们谈论着生活的新变化，对世界的新看法。我们学会了开车，又各自撞坏了车；我们找了工作，又换了工作；我们谈了恋爱，一个结婚了，一个分手了。对于生活，我们好像有了越来越多看法，又总有新鲜事颠覆这些看法。我们期待着，又抱怨着，碎碎念着，等着时间流过，将我们的身影慢慢拉长。
我们开始邀请一些朋友加入闲聊。试图用一种举重若轻的方式，回顾人生艰难时刻：写论文。求职。在文化冲突中生存。寻找伴侣。无数次的失败后，我们有时等来成功，大多数时候则没有。
我们和朋友在一起，彼此学习着，互相取暖着。好像在旷野寒夜里慢慢烧着一堆篝火。或许只是微弱光芒，却希望能令远近看到的路人明白，并不是完全的黑。
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