The Internet, 996 blessings, decent urban white-collar workers, once entangled in these labels, life and most people, step by step to school, reading, after graduation became a glamorous "advertiser" in the cubicle of high-rise buildings, until the body can not support him to warn him.
He thinks every day, can this life go on?
After having the answer in his heart, he tried to make some changes, and since then, the life of the post-90s has become like an ups and downs like an ocean wave.
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"Who would have thought that I would be on CCTV news in this way, and now the people of the whole country know what the real name of Fertility is."
The man, who teased himself on Station B, experienced a typhoon on December 16 last year, destroying 90 percent of the island's houses, including his shop.
The roof and wall panels of the hotel were all blown away, and watching his efforts turn into ruins, he described as "like being bombed by an airplane", in a calm tone mixed with a hint of humor.
Not long after the typhoon ended, a CCTV reporter came to the door, and under the reporter's interview lens, he rarely cleaned up his hair and beard and put on "normal" clothes.
Many people will wonder, who is the fertility, there is no "nobleman" in front of the typhoon, why should the CCTV reporter interview him?
Indeed, fertility is just an ordinary UP master on the B station, if there are other labels, it is probably a "ronin" who opens a homestay hotel on the Philippine island of Siagao.
After resigning at the age of 28, he came to Siagon Island to open a restaurant and a homestay, thinking that the future would rush out of a flower road and live the ideal life he dreamed of.
Unexpectedly, the epidemic suddenly struck, and the island of Siargao was closed, disrupting all his plans.
During the epidemic, there were no tourists in the store, no income, and it was difficult to survive to the island to relax the policy, and the number of tourists gradually increased, and as a result, a super typhoon that was rare in a hundred years destroyed everything he had built by his own hands.
Fertility fell into confusion at some point, "These three years of hard work and perseverance are gone, and I don't know how to live on this island." ”
But on the first day after the typhoon, the wind stopped, the rain stopped, the moment the sun rose, the feeling of fertility, this scene may be engraved in the mind for a lifetime.
"You seem to see a little hope again, that the sun is rising and that we are all alive.
We are not dead, there are many people dead on this island, but we have all survived, and there is hope for the main people to live, and as long as they are alive, there is nothing to collapse. ”
Before being a full-time ronin, Fertility was still an "advertising dog" that dealt with PPT, reports, and customers.
According to his parents' expectations, he went to school step by step, and after graduation, he worked in the media advertising industry and became an account director, with a maximum monthly income of about 70,000.
High salary means high pay, especially in the advertising industry, overtime until the early morning is a common thing, "the customer a phone call came over, said 2 o'clock online meeting on the project, can only force chicken blood to accompany customers overtime." ”
Although he has a good income and a bright career, his fertility is increasingly feeling that he is a little inadequate, and he often feels that he is not good at dealing with people.
Fertility belongs to people who are more worried and are particularly responsible for their work, so they have won the trust of many customers. However, worrying also means worrying about many things, and having to personally ask about everything.
In those years, he was so anxious that he couldn't do it, his hair was almost out, and his hairline was seriously regressed.
"I grew very fat in those years, my body was swollen, I often had gastroenteritis, vomiting up and down diarrhea, the doctor said that it was caused by excessive pressure, and I wanted to go to the hospital to hang water."
Fertility feels more and more that this life cannot be sustained, that such a life is not what he wants, and that at 28 years old, it is time to make some changes.
Before surfing, Fertility actually preferred diving, every year during the holidays, he would go to the Philippines or Malaysia to dive, until 2015, he went to Sri Lanka during the holidays, and he fell in love with surfing for the first time.
"I'm particularly obsessed with the feeling of flying on the waves, and I don't know why, maybe it's because I feel more free when I fly."
In the past, fertility has always followed the rules of society, working hard, making money, buying a house and a car.
If there are no accidents, it is to get married and have children, to live a step-by-step life, "these things limit your freedom", and fertility is more eager to fly freely than high salaries.
Surfing is an extreme sport, and although you can feel the thrill of flying, injuries are commonplace.
At one point, Fertility said, he almost died.
There is a rope between the surfboard and the foot, and that rope is a life-saving rope, because the wave is too big and the rope is broken. After the fertility rolled up from the water, the surfboard was instantly swept away by the current.
"I was taken to the turbulence area by the current, it was like boiling water, I was treading water over there, it was difficult to breathe, the waves were constantly covering my head, I kept calling him help, I didn't see anyone nearby, I thought, maybe I died here today." 」
Luckily, a local surfer passed by and saw the fertility, so he swam on that man's surfboard and swam out of the turbulence zone.
"So, surfing will teach you to be in awe of nature, I am in awe of it, I respect it, it will also give me good waves, good weather, good sunshine, I feel as if it is more suitable for me than dealing with people in the city, dealing with nature seems to be more suitable for me." 」
At the end of 2018, after Fertility resigned, he went straight to this small island with almost no Chinese , Siagao Island.
He invested more than 2 million yuan in all the income from his 7 years of work, as well as some borrowed funds, to build a 7-room homestay, opened the island's first Chinese restaurant and bar, and founded the island's first surf club with a Chinese teaching system.
The house was designed by Fertility itself, which took 8 months from design to construction, and is a two-story restaurant and surf shop, with seven homestays behind the storefront.
Fertility is in charge of the restaurant, and his wife is mainly in charge of the guest rooms.
In the beginning, business was going well.
Because of the unique surfing conditions, the island attracts many international tourists and surf enthusiasts, and the fat rooms are basically not worried about guests.
Chinese restaurants and surf clubs also often have overseas Chinese come to visit, "the business is completely unsafe, at that time the net profit can be about 20,000 to 30,000 yuan per month." ”
In addition, the body and mentality of fertility have also undergone earth-shaking changes.
His skin was tanned and he looked no different from the local islanders.
The schedule has also become very regular, and I must go to bed at 10 o'clock and 11 o'clock. At five or six o'clock in the morning, when you hear the chickens outside, the fertility will also get up.
There is not much junk food to eat on the island, and the milk tea that urban white-collar workers love to drink cannot be seen on the island at all, and the fertility can only cook their own meals every day, eating fresh fish and seafood in the sea.
Gradually, the materialism has also become very low, buying things from Taobao, it takes two or three months to arrive, if returned, half a year has passed.
"I haven't bought new clothes in years, and all I need to live here is a few pairs of surf pants."
However, the epidemic and typhoon are very merciless, and in just a moment, they have destroyed the ideal life that Fertility has not been able to live easily.
At the beginning of 2020, the fertility store was just open for four months, and Siagao began to close the island, with no tourists, no income, and he was also carrying a domestic mortgage, if it was an ordinary person, he was already overwhelmed.
After becoming a ronin, the fertility mentality is no longer as anxious as when he was in China, he surfs every day, cooks, walks the dog, and occasionally sells some surfboards to the locals, and after the materialistic desire is minimized, life seems to be able to continue.
After two years, the island finally opened, and after the increase in tourists, the fat shop gradually recovered its vitality.
However, Typhoon Rey on December 16 destroyed everything on the island, including his shop.
Fertility had the despair of a flash, but he thought about it, it doesn't matter if he loses 2 million, and he doesn't have to be afraid of his home becoming a ruin, "As long as you can live every day, don't go hungry, and then there are waves every day, living in such a beautiful place, it's already very good." ”
After the typhoon, almost all the houses on the island were destroyed, and the originally lush coconut groves were also scraped.
Walking on the road, some people broke down and cried, and some people carried coffins, which was unbearable to see.
Fertility returned to his "home", walked to the bathroom, saw that his surfboard was still "alive", and smiled with relief.
Then he pulled out a few bottles of beer from the refrigerator in the ruins of the restaurant, took a sip, and smiled at the camera and said, "Celebrate that we are alive and have beer to drink." ”
The word "alive" became the most frequent word in his mouth, and it was a blessing to live safely in this world.
A few days later, he decided to go surfing with friends, even at the expense of stockpiling gasoline, saying, "After all, we are still ronin." ”
With no electricity, no water, and no signal on the island, and people starting to grab clean water and food, for safety, Fertility decided to leave the island with his friends, which he had held out for three years.
He took a boat to Manila to see if there was a better chance and asked him if he would go back to Siago surf to open a homestay, saying he didn't know.
"I can't say anything about the future, I want to go back, but I don't stay on the island all year round." And going back to the island is not necessarily to do homestay teaching surfing, there are many other things to do. ”
In the early morning of leaving Siagao Island, the morning sun is full of sky, and the scenery of the end of the world in the past is at this moment, as if to tell the truth: if people are still there, there is infinite hope.
If it had happened three years ago, the fertility might have collapsed long ago, but the surfing life on the island, coupled with two years of epidemics, has changed his mentality a lot.
He recently interviewed at companies in Manila, and for him, staying in the city to work was the most pressing option.
If there is no accident, he will still do ronin fertility in the future, but the surfing place may change a little.
"As long as the wave is still there, the ronin will come back."
The ideal life of fertility seems to have been completely destroyed by the epidemic and typhoon, but in another sense, looking at life more thoroughly, being more fearless about the future, and treating tribulations as jokes, is this not exactly the kind of freedom he has been pursuing?
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Station B: Ronin Fertility,
Little Red Book: Ronin Fertility, Network, etc
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