It is interesting to do some inward-looking and self-referential homework, like meta-blogging on my own blog.
I share my daily output with a limited number of friends and family members at these social media sites: Facebook, X, LinkedIn, Telegram, and WeChat. Since I have a tiny circle of friends wherever I turn, I don't anticipate a large readership.
Occasionally, one article attracts an unusually high readership on the first day, like this one: “What did Mao Zedong leave behind for his family.” I guess it’s the effect of famous people. Nobody can beat him on that.
Along the same line of thinking, here's a quotation from Mao: "The world is yours and also ours, but in the final analysis it is yours. You young people are full of vitality and are in your prime. You are like the sun at eight or nine o'clock in the morning. You shoulder the hope of humankind."
True if the young learn the wisdom from the old. As it is, it's not happening now. The stereotype of the young is they are young and stupid, most of the time.
I think the part that Mao admired most in the young is their 朝气蓬勃 (zhāo qì péng bó), energetic and full of vitality.
By the way, to keep my vitality, I have been jogging with my youngest sister since I got back to Beijing. I encouraged her to jog everyday. After she left for Yunnan yesterday, I went out all by myself today. I imagine she will do the same after I leave Beijing.