[Back Issue Discount] Magazine No.132 December Issue Are You Okay? | Little Days

Hope you are well I recently discovered that for a while now, the first thing I’d do when meeting friends is: How are you doing lately? How are you doing? Then they start updating each other on their latest status or having a trash dumping competition. I think this pattern seems to have started after I entered society. As we grow older, the friends who used to take it for granted that we meet every day have started to get busy with their own lives and move in different directions. The life scenes no longer overlap, and every meeting is no longer taken for granted. The impatient question "How are you?" is an eagerness to fill the gaps in each other's lives, and it is also like conveying the deep longing of "I miss you so much" on behalf of the awkward me. Think about it carefully, "Are you okay?" Such simple words may contain the excitement of acquaintance, concern after not seeing each other for a long time, inquiry, care, or the long-lasting longing that can never be let go, as if no matter how complicated the interpersonal relationships are, they can be softly wrapped in this greeting. "Are you okay?" can be a gentle concern expressed to others, or it can be an inward inquiry of comfort. People are always accustomed to looking outward, but forget to look back and care about themselves - the person they have been with the longest and are closest to. Therefore, in the special issue at the end of 2024, we would like to ask our most recent readers, "How are you?" and have imagined five different responses and moods. Maybe you are in your best time now, or you are in a stagnant period. It doesn't matter if you are not doing well... No matter what state of life you are in when you open this magazine, we sincerely invite you at different stages of life to follow the color codes on the side of the book and gaze at your present self through the carefully selected life stories. This episode also greets my favorite podcaster Ouna, who shared with us the good and bad moments. She always ridiculed herself for being a bitter office worker in the past, but with her unique sense of humor and perseverance, she finally turned her former lack of confidence into sweetness. The poet and novelist Pan Bolin, who is good at self-analysis, asked this question softly to his younger self, and faced the anxiety buried deep in his heart in the conversation with himself. Looking back on this year, how have you been doing? No matter the situation is good or bad, I hope everyone can find the best response in the text. This issue of the magazine is not a prescription, but a gentle blessing. I hope it can accompany you in every moment, because I want to know how you are? I hope everything is well with you. ▍Part 1 No matter when, remember that you are important ▍Part 2 To my dear _____: To 18-year-old Pan Bolin: You once just liked me ▍Part 3 The good and bad moments Oona faces her sad past and bids farewell to the past difficulties ▍Part 4 "How are you?" Five moods for greetings Enjoy life Li Fang takes care of himself with cooking and occasionally runs away from home with desserts Maggie After get off work, cooking curry rice and salmon soup to please herself is a very healing thing Li Yingxia on the road - Iceland Highway 1 Zhao CHAO Entering the amusement park of nature brings back more than just scenery Plus+ Recommended playlists to boost your energy Walking slowly is also a way of moving forward Kick that too lucky world let me be so willful loose is the balance of pain survival necessary Cai Shuzhen: You don't have to pursue perfectionism, just live like yourself Zeng Fanning breathes freely and walks in the dark. This time we walk a little further. Plus+ Recommended recipes to boost your body and mind It’s okay to be bad sometimes Issa quietly listened to the playlist in the dark night, accompanying her through the confusion and anxiety Zhang Weizhong: The impermanence of a broken heart is that some people are destined to only accompany you for a while Yang Liya does not have a perfect destiny. What you want most is always after disasters and hardships. Plus+ Anime recommendations for those bad times Can't let go of thoughts Chu Ying slowly wrote down the days with poems when she missed him Wang Congwei No one loves me like my mother, but I am still loved even though I am not that good. Chasing the strange and making a wish to the fireflies, the glimmer in the palms is a poem that illuminates the true heart Li Yunyu has seen countless beautiful seascapes and only knows that there is only one that can catch you Plus+ Movie recommendations that you can't forget and don't want to forget Goodbye & Hello Chen Rushan exists in different stages of life and finally learns to balance the darkness in his heart Lu Jiaxin walked through the unbearable Li Sao where every second felt like a year. Remember to live stubbornly without regrets. Chen Pei-ling, at the end of his life, let me say goodbye to you quietly Plus+ Recommended books for letting go and moving on ▍Part 5 Dedicated to you who are not so good, small things that may make you better Little Days×Very Mulan Unboxing Local Progress Take a slow walk in Jincheng, an ancient town nestled in the rich life