When I decided to lie flat, I didn't have the word lie flat.
He was dismissed for the second time within half a year because of his poor ability to work. After a period of hard blows, after many unsuccessful job searches, he chose to lie flat. Love it, count it as a day.
There is still the last time I left my job, the last salary paid by the unit, almost seven or eight hundred yuan. Rent a small single room for 80 yuan a month. There is a computer in the rental house that has no internet, and I hide in the room every day without going out. It's about playing some stand-alone games and watching some CDs.
In order to save money, every time it is full of a large pot of millet porridge. When you are hungry, serve a bowl and eat it with pickles. At that time, there was no desire to eat, and it was enough not to die of hunger.
Sleepy and fall asleep, wake up and open the computer to play. I don't think about anything, and sometimes I even turn it upside down during the day and night. The room was not soundproof, and the seven or eight families living in that house were all working, and every morning they would be awakened by the sound of them getting up to wash and cook.
When someone is there, I never open the door, this is a public bathroom, I would rather hold back, and wait until others go to work before opening the door.
Because the people here are very familiar with each other, they will greet each other and chat when they meet. And what I'm most afraid of is that people ask me, what kind of work do you do, why don't you see you at work?
Once the landlady came knocking on the door and said that there was a neighbor next to her who told her that there was movement in my house, but she had not seen anyone in and out for a few days, and she was worried that the landlord would come to see it. The landlord asked me, don't you go to work? Seeing you all day is staying at home. I didn't want to say more, so I lied that the unit was on vacation now.
The landlady stood outside the room and looked inside the room, a mess. I could feel that she didn't believe what I said. I could also feel the look of contempt in her eyes when she looked at me, that contempt, not because I was poor, but because of my laziness.
That kind of day lasted for almost half a year, and I couldn't go out without communicating with people. In the end, when I had no money to pay the rent, I owed it, and when I had nothing to eat, I went to my sister's house and took all the food in the refrigerator, and at that time I had the keys to my sister's house.
By the end, the landlord had already started to chase me away. Penniless, I haven't eaten in days.
On that day, the landlord told me to vacate the house in the afternoon, and the rent owed was gone. I sat in bed all morning without turning on the computer or playing games that day.
In the afternoon, I dismantled the computer and put it on the bicycle, and then went to the electronic city to sell for 400 yuan. After returning, I paid the rent first, and then went to the nearby wet market to buy two pounds of meat. Cut the meat into pieces and put it directly into the pot, without putting oil and cooking it directly. I ate more than half of that meal, and the meal was so delicious that I felt like I hadn't eaten meat for a long time.
Early in the morning of the second day, I rode out on my bike to find a job, and I wasn't picky at this time. The first place that would use me, I stayed there.
In that small company, I did it for a year and a half. After that, I found other jobs, and then I started to start my own studio business.
I was 26 years old, and now a full 20 years have passed. During this time, they met their wives, and then the two started a business together, and the studio had hundreds of employees at its largest scale. It is not a successful career, but it is also based on their own ability to buy a house and a car, and have savings.
When I chose to lie flat, I didn't see hope for the future. At that time, I never imagined that I could live such a life as I am today.
At that time, people were definitely not as tolerant of lying flat as people today. Looking back now, I am very grateful to those who were sneering at themselves and full of contempt. Their contempt became the motivation for my efforts at that time.
As long as people are willing to work hard, there are countless possibilities in the future.
Young people who are tired and tired can choose to lie flat, but lying flat is only a temporary rest, do not take lying flat as their goal of the whole life.
