Memorable Monday

      

      Today I am going to share my own experiences with keeping a family journal and sharing stressors with my family members. Since all my family members and I live a long distance away from each other, in order to keep daily connections easily, everybody in my family has down loaded an app on their cellphones or laptops called WeChat. WeChat is a new and powerful mobile communication tool. It supports sending voice, video, photo and text messages. You can also do group chats WeChat works on iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Symbian and BlackBerry devices. A family member can update whatever he or she wants to say or wants to share with the rest of the family anytime, anywhere. There are 10 people in my family group, including my grandparents, my parents, my uncles, aunt, my cousin and my boyfriend.

      Every time I feel stressed or face certain problems, I like to share my worries with my family on WeChat because all my family members are there. They check WeChat every day so they can give me ideas and help me out as soon as possible. Also they encourage me and support me. I do remember last year, I shared with my family how stressful my life had become. I wrote a long text on WeChat. I told them my car was having problems because of the bad snow. I had the flu and had been sick for two weeks. I had to work on my thesis and tests because it was close to final week. I have to find a new place to live because my contract ended in the next month. My boyfriend was debating whether or not he should change jobs, and he needed my support and suggestions. All of the sudden, everything made me feel that the end of world was coming. I could not even sleep!

      The next day, all of my family members responded tome on WeChat. My father told me to relax and to take care of myself first. He told me to try to figure each thing out one at a time and to do everything step by step. My grandfather sent me 500 dollars and told me to take care of myself and go to a restaurant to spoil myself. That was very sweet! My cousin said he had some friends in the state, and if I needed any help, I could give them a call. After I got through everything, my father wrote me to tell me he was proud of me. And all of my other family members felt happy for me.

      Writing our daily stressors on WeChat has become a habit for my family members. It keeps my family working together to solve difficult problems. We still use WeChat everyday!