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I have met a lot over the years, but the person I met this time is probably the richest person I have come into contact with, at the very least, the one who seems to be the richest.
Although I don't know much about luxury, I know the logo on shoes and down jackets; Although I haven't bought a car or a house yet, I can see that the shining luxury car is probably a commemorative model; In the photo of his circle of friends that says "drinking tea at home", he also knows that it is in a courtyard courtyard.
But what really made me feel the need to write a diary about this encounter was not because of his wealth, but because I saw in him a different way of life. He even began to make me wonder if the life I now thought was "good" was really "rubbish" as he thought it was.
01.
The embarrassment of not having words
It was a very cold Saturday, and we met at a Japanese restaurant. He was ten minutes late, about 178 tall, wearing a hat, wearing an inconspicuous but visible luxury. I like to lower my head when I walk, and my demeanor is somewhat similar to Wang Sicong, who I have seen on Weibo.
In fact, if a person is interested in you, it can be basically determined at the moment when your eyes meet. We're probably not each other's thing. However, it is also great to have a rare weekend to make friends and chat.
So I took the initiative to start a light-hearted topic, "You travel often." "Because I've been to a lot of places, I thought I could talk about it, but the situation didn't go the way I thought.
I asked him, "I'm going to Phuket in a while, which beach is better?" ”
I thought he would recommend me a nice beach and a few tourist attractions as usual, but he replied, "I don't know, we were staying at a cliff hotel, it was a private beach, and we didn't go out much." "After asking more, I learned that this hotel is about 20,000 a night.
Only then did I know that I was a tourist and people were on vacation.
Seeing that the topic of travel could not be talked about together, I changed direction and talked about local life, "Where do you prefer to go shopping?" "This time, I am mentally prepared, it is nothing more than high-end business districts such as Sanlitun North District or SKP. But what I didn't expect was that he replied, "I don't go shopping, and I usually buy most of my things when I pass through Dubai." ”
I realized that I probably couldn't talk about it this day. So I smiled and nodded, and began to fiddle with the suki pot that had already been boiled dry, and then asked the waiter to add water. With the mentality of breaking the jar and breaking it, I thought that Laozi is not looking for this topic, can I not eat?
At this time, the rich man on the opposite side slowly asked, "What are you doing?" So, we started talking about each other's work and life.
02.
In his eyes, I was probably "trash"
I am 24 years old, a native of Beijing, because I studied hard and graduated from a decent university; Working in an Internet company that is not a "big factory" but not a small scale, I do what I am good at, and I have a good time with colleagues and leaders. It is true that there will be occasional overtime, but it is acceptable.
Get off work not too late every day and work out three times a week. On weekends, I go skiing in the suburbs with friends in the winter and buy a season pass.
Height 182, not ugly. This should be one of the reasons why this trip can be made.
All in all, I think that although I am not a dragon and phoenix among people, I am not bad. Whether it is work or life, it is in a state that does not cause trouble to others and can make yourself feel comfortable.
To tell you the truth, as an ordinary child in an ordinary family, I can live a happy life with my own efforts about two years after graduation, and I silently praised myself in my heart.
And when I told him about my situation, he didn't say, "Emmmm..." for a few seconds. Although he did not say it, two words appeared on his face - "garbage".
I don't know which point of mine touched which of his nerves, he suddenly opened the chatterbox and began to tell me about his entrepreneurial experience.
He is a 29-year-old Beijing native, and although his family has a courtyard house worth more than 100 million yuan, he started from scratch during college and is now the owner of an original restaurant brand.
He said that when he graduated at the age of 22, he slept only five hours a day to run his own shop. His efforts and struggles were seen by his seniors and gave him guidance and help. So, he began to try different businesses, go to different cities to expand his business, go overseas to investigate, and achieve business and wealth growth faster than his peers.
Even now, he still maintains this state of "fighting chicken blood", regardless of day and night, regardless of weekdays and weekends, and strives to go to a higher level.
What he said immediately afterwards explained why he began to become a little "excited". He said, I have seen too many Beijing children like you, a little smart, no life pressure, always emphasize the so-called life, in fact, is not enterprising, in the end it will be like this, it will not be better.
Seeing that I didn't answer, he seemed to realize that he shouldn't be talking about this in the face of the base, and it was a little inappropriate to judge the life of a person he met for the first time. So he began to look back, "I tell you this because I see that you are excellent, and you are also a Beijing child." We should all go up, getting better and better, right? ”
03.
"It would be weird if you could imagine the feeling of a million a year now"
What he said sounded reasonable, but I vaguely felt that I didn't agree with something, so I had to listen to him continue.
He told me that this is a time when you can't make yourself too comfortable. He cites the example of a friend of his who did P8 in Ali. He said that a person who can achieve this position cannot be not excellent, with an annual salary of two or three million, managing a team of dozens of people, and in his 30s began to have the mentality of "pension" in the company, but he was later fired.
After being fired, the friend had nowhere to go. Because other large factories have no reason to recruit a resigned executive, small factories are not to say that it is difficult to give the same annual salary, and the downshift of the company alone is enough for this friend.
And the real scary thing is not these face-saving things, he said, what is really scary is that when a middle and senior executive is fired in his thirties, he must return to the front-line post (?). ), all over again, and all around him, are young people in their twenties.
Regal concluded, "So what's comfortable? Being comfortable means you're about to be opened. The current environment is that everyone must work hard, and if you don't work hard, you will be pushed down by the desperate young people behind. ”
He immediately added a knife, and said with a little ridicule and sarcasm, "You are now 24 years old and have begun to retire, and you are still healthy three times, you still ski, and you still have a season." With that, he picked up the cup and took a sip of tea.
I was a little frightened and a little upset when I heard this story, and retorted, "I'm not in retirement, I work very hard." But I also want to have time off and live to develop my hobbies. I don't think it's a conflict. ”
What's more, I don't think I need to make two or three million a year. I quoted Jack Ma as saying, "In China, families who earn 30,000 or 40,000 a month are the happiest." "I said, I think Jack Ma said it very well.
And the rich man sitting opposite did not wait for my words to fall, and asked rhetorically, "Then why didn't Ma Yun go and earn thirty or forty thousand a month?" ”
I was speechless.
He put down his teacup and immediately said, "You don't feel like you need to because you've never reached that level." When you earn 5,000 a month, can you imagine earning 20,000 a month? If you feel good with a monthly salary of 10,000, would you imagine an annual salary of 500,000? It would be weird if you could imagine what it would be like to earn a million a year. ”
He changed his tone, "If you have a child in the future, it will take millions to raise him, and how much will a two-bedroom apartment cost?" School? Cram school? What happens when you retire? What do you use to maintain your quality of life? You do the math. You don't think about it, you don't fight and sit at the bottom of that well forever, and you think that the sky above your head is very beautiful. ”
With that, he took another sip of tea.
04.
No one mentioned "see you next time"
To be honest, I was indeed a little unhappy to hear him judge my life so brazenly. But it's fun to exchange values and outlook on life with a billionaire once in a while.
Some people say that there are two major difficulties in this world, one is to earn other people's money into their own wallets, and the other is to instill their own ideas into other people's minds. I wasn't convinced by the rich man's words, but they got me thinking.
Although I am an ordinary company employee and he is a billionaire entrepreneur, we have one thing in common, we are all gay.
I can't help but wonder, as a comrade, how much money do you earn to gain a sense of security? When we say "balanced life," do we really have that capital? Is the "return to life" and "marrying a wife and having children" in other people's mouths a thing or not? What's wrong again?
As I thought about it, we got up and walked out of the Japanese food store. I walked him to the parking lot and watched him get into the gleaming luxury car until it slowly drove away. None of us said "see you next time."
Walking home, it occurred to me that this meal seemed to be what I had paid for.
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