Ma Yun, a leading Figure in China's Internet, once declared in a speech:
"Believe it or not, I haven't been paid a month from 1999 to now, I've never touched money, I'm not interested in money."
This passage caused an uproar at the time.
Some people think that he is Versailles, setting himself up a high man; some people lament his big pattern and regard money as dung. But no matter how everyone speculates, Ma Yun has the courage to say such a thing, because he is really rich.
Only when you have something is you qualified to judge it. And when you don't have it yet, no matter how reasonable you say it is, it will only make people feel that they can't eat grapes and say that grapes are sour.
In life, no one can not deal with money. The degree of food, clothing, shelter, food, clothing, and clothing is inseparable from a word of money in all aspects. Some people pretend to be high and abandon money. It's just that this high is your demeanor when you have money, and it becomes a joke when you don't have money.
In this life, many things can only be truly understood after experiencing, and when you really have no money and taste the suffering of poverty, you will completely understand it.
One: Poverty allows you to see through the people around you
The poor are in the downtown area and no one asks, and the rich have distant relatives in the mountains. Human nature is so thin and cold, when you have no money, you have friends around you who can speak, but there are only a few.
Hong Kong male star Zhong Zhentao, once experienced a period of poverty and depravity, when he was a popular movie star, he called for friends and friends around him, but when he went bankrupt, those friends who were around him before disappeared without a trace for a while.
Until recent years, his career has gradually improved, and his friends have gradually increased, but at this time he already knows that these friends who have gathered are not friends, but just derivatives brought by money.
The world is bustling, all for the benefit of the coming, the world is bustling, all for the benefit of the future.
Some people feel that when they have money, the people around them have become better and things have become smoother. In fact, the person is still the person, the things are still those things, and the lubricant that makes all this better is just money.
Don't despise your friends who leave you when you're frustrated, they just make choices that ordinary people make; cherish the friends who are still with you when you are down, these are the more precious assets than money.
Two: I am not qualified to talk about self-esteem in the face of poverty
We often say that money can buy everything, but it can't buy a person's dignity. The truth is that in the face of poverty, you are not even qualified to talk about self-esteem.
There is a Grandmother Liu in "Dream of the Red Chamber", who is known as the ugliest person in the book.
Before the wealth of Jia Province, Grandma Liu bowed her knees and pretended to be ugly for the entertainment of the people of Jia Province. Even the slaves of Jia Fu and Lady Wang's zhou rui family could drink and point fingers at Grandma Liu.
Grandma Liu didn't know that everyone was watching her jokes and making her feel bored? She knew. But she knew better that she needed the money that Jia Fu had given away from her fingers, which was her grandson's rations and the hope of their family for the winter. In the face of survival, self-esteem is not worth mentioning.
Cangmiao is honest and knows etiquette, enough food and clothing and honor and disgrace, in the case of the most basic food and clothing is not guaranteed, to pursue those self-esteem and purity, can not let people feel your integrity, only will make you look more ridiculous.
Self-esteem is not something to show to others, but the most precious quality in your heart. Being able to stick to your bottom line when you are poor and not take ill-gotten gains is self-esteem.
But when others reach out to you but you refuse, or you can't pull down when you have the opportunity to improve your life, this is not self-esteem, this is vanity.
It's nothing to suffer some blank-eyed humiliation when you fall, bear the burden of humiliation, lie down and taste the guts, and when you have a day to soar, you will have everything you want.
The most terrible thing about poverty is not material deprivation, but that it will gradually wear down your mind, make you crumbling, and make you willing to degenerate. As long as the heart of the heart is not scattered, there will always be hope behind. Temporary poverty is nothing, but if the heart is scattered and the heart is poor, then there is no hope for this life.
Poverty is not always a bad thing, and people who have not suffered will never know how sweet sugar is.
Temper your mind in poverty, turn poverty into soil, and blossom into success, which is the most precious lesson that poverty gives you in life.