那一年，我选择了放弃，却始终未能将梦想彻底搁下。毕竟，那是我用青春与心血，断断续续经营了多年的部落格。
That year, I chose to let go, yet the dream never truly left my heart. After all, it was a blog I had tended to with youth and devotion, on and off, through so many years.
或许，那时的自己太过年轻，觉得部落格已被时代抛下。再加上生活的重担与经济的压力，放弃仿佛成了唯一的出口。只是，我终究不曾舍得割舍那份喜爱。
Perhaps I was too young then, believing that blogging had been abandoned by time. With the burdens of life and the weight of financial strain, giving up seemed to be the only way out. Yet, in truth, I never had the heart to sever what I loved most.
我始终不习惯喧嚣的社交媒体。心底渴望的，是在浩瀚的网络中，留下一隅安静的小角落，写下只属于自己的字句。若在这里与你相遇，那便是缘分的安排。
I never grew accustomed to the clamor of social media. What I longed for, deep within, was a quiet corner of the vast internet, where I could leave behind words that were truly mine. And if I happen to meet you here, then perhaps it is the gentle arrangement of fate.
这些年，我一步一脚印，努力走向想要的生活。心底那份未曾消散的执念，如星火般微弱却长久，始终照亮着前行的路。终于，我带着初心与眷恋，回到了这里。
Through these years, I have walked steadily, step by step, toward the life I once dreamed of. That lingering flame in my heart, faint yet enduring, has always lit my path forward. And at last, with both longing and resolve, I have returned.
2018 年 10 月 31 日，我写下“回归简单”，与这片天地告别。2025 年 9 月 5 日，我再一次拥抱，重新拾起那份初心。七年的光阴，兜兜转转，原来我依旧在这里。真好。
On October 31, 2018, I wrote Returning to Simplicity, bidding farewell to this little world. On September 5, 2025, I embraced it once again, picking up the dream I once set aside. Seven years have come and gone, and yet—I find myself here still. How wonderful.
不能忘了，那时的域名是 cchoong.com，而我在网络里的名字，叫“在网络流浪成哥”。那份抽象与稚气，甚至被电台 DJ 张吉安调笑为“在哥”。如今想起，不觉莞尔，就像少年的笑声，被时间收藏，今日重温，依旧清亮。
I cannot forget that my domain then was cchoong.com, and my chosen name in the digital world was The Drifting Cheng in Cyberspace. So abstract, so naïve, that even radio DJ Zhang Jiaan once teased me, calling me simply Zai Ge. Now, remembering it, I smile—like the laughter of youth, kept safe by time, still bright and clear when heard again today.
放弃时的文字，请见《回归简单》