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，歡迎來到2017年。我的老朋友張煜和我做的中英文播客《如故》上線了。
從在香港漂泊時算起，我們認識已經有六七年了。我輾轉來到芝加哥，張煜輾轉回了北京。忽然之間，我們就過了三十。
生活并不像我們年少時期待的那樣，進入一勞永逸的軌道，反倒常常有分崩離析的危險。
每周一次的電話里，我們談論著生活的新變化，對世界的新看法。我們學會了開車，又各自撞壞了車；我們找了工作，又換了工作；我們談了戀愛，一個結婚了，一個分手了。對于生活，我們好像有了越來越多看法，又總有新鮮事顛覆這些看法。我們期待著，又抱怨著，碎碎念著，等著時間流過，將我們的身影慢慢拉長。
我們開始邀請一些朋友加入閑聊。試圖用一種舉重若輕的方式，回顧人生艱難時刻：寫論文。求職。在文化沖突中生存。尋找伴侶。無數次的失敗后，我們有時等來成功，大多數時候則沒有。
我們和朋友在一起，彼此學習著，互相取暖著。好像在曠野寒夜里慢慢燒著一堆篝火。或許只是微弱光芒，卻希望能令遠近看到的路人明白，并不是完全的黑。
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