"Is the old classmate here? I'm sorry to disturb you so late, can you help with the turnover of a thousand yuan, and pay back Alipay, it's overdue for several days."
At 11 o'clock last night, an old high school classmate who I hadn't seen for more than 10 years called me and asked me if I could transfer 1,000 yuan to him, saying that his credit card had been overdue for several days, and there was really no way to find me, and the 1,000 yuan had been borrowed from the surrounding crowd.
I was very surprised!
I remember that a few years ago, this old high school classmate has always been a good mix among our classmates, before graduating from high school, he went south to work in Dongguan, Guangdong, and after a few years of work, he jumped out and set up his own furniture processing factory, not only to do domestic orders, but also to receive some foreign trade orders. He was the first among our classmates to buy a house in Huizhou, and he also paid attention to the pictures and short videos of Mercedes-Benz posted in his circle of friends, and attached a sentence:
"Be a low-key person and do things in a high-profile manner, if you are a man, you will rule the world"!
A feeling of high spirits and unlimited scenery.
It's only been a few years, why can't I even take out 1,000 yuan, this contrast is too big, it's so difficult that it really responds to that sentence: many bosses who drive Mercedes-Benz and BMW can't even afford to refuel.
Through simple communication, I learned that he has really not had a good time in the past few years, and he has changed too much, and even changed the trajectory of his life.
He said that his luck in the past few years has been too bad, the furniture factory that he has carefully operated in the past three years of the epidemic, due to the serious involution, has been unable to make ends meet, especially in recent years, orders have plummeted, and many accounts will not come back, and after persisting for 2 or 3 years, he finally announced that the factory would be closed, and he sorted out the debt and owed more than 2 million.
And a house in Huizhou in his hand and a house in his hometown county town have been hanging for a long time and can't be sold. Under the pressure of life, in March this year, I went to find a sales job related to my industry, but the basic salary was only 5,000 yuan. From the boss to the employee, the bitter taste in his heart is only known to himself.
Because he hadn't billed for 3 months and the probationary period hadn't expired, he was dismissed, so he could only ask an acquaintance to find a job, and he hadn't found it for 5 or 6 months. He said that he had insomnia every night, and after thinking about it, he still couldn't find a good way out, and his wife had to quarrel with him every day, and his marriage was basically broken down, and he had been sleeping in separate beds for several months.
The misfortune is that the job has not been found yet, and his old father has relapsed from his old illness, and he has been hospitalized in Xiangya Hospital twice this year, which is simply a big head. I have borrowed all the places where I can borrow money, the old debts have not been paid off, the new debts are getting bigger and bigger, and everything that can be borrowed by the borrowing platform has been borrowed. He said that he has been either borrowing money in the past few years, or on the way to being collected for debts, and the 37-year-old man has almost gray hair, and he really doesn't know how long he can last.
"It's good to get through it, and the future will definitely get better!" I can only comfort him in this way, and I don't believe it is true.
It's really hard to imagine that as the head of the family, he has two old people and three children in the backbone of the family, and the Spring Festival is about to begin, and such a big family can't even take out 1,000 yuan now.
It's hard to put into words, and it's hard to move forward.
Perhaps he once had high spirits, from getting married and having children to opening a company, to buying a house and a car, it is estimated that he must still be thinking that one day his company can become bigger and stronger, from a small foundry to a listed company; he has also been in front of relatives and friends, and every time he returns to the village, he is also praised by the villagers. So many grander wishes flashed in his mind, and how long has passed, and now he has become a problem to find a job to make a living and support his family.
The life of ordinary people is really too difficult, where is the way out for the people at the bottom?
Some time ago, I saw a very heart-wrenching sentence on a platform:
"I don't want to make money anymore, the more I get poorer, I went out to work hard at the age of 18, and I'm almost 40 years old, but I still owe a lot of debt to the bank. ”
A word wakes up people in their dreams, but on the other hand, the current situation of most people around us is not like this? Otherwise, where would the 780 million debtors in the country come from?
A few years ago, we were accustomed to running on the highway, and suddenly stepped on the brakes, and many people were not used to it, and even overturned, and our lives were beaten back to their original shape, which may be the essence of real life.
Through the life of the past few years, we have also seen the truth in reality: life is not happy, there must be surplus food to live at home, the ability is insufficient to rest and expand, and being careful can sail the ship of ten thousand years!
The Chinese New Year is coming up in half a month, and a man who can't get a thousand yuan is still qualified to celebrate the New Year! I wish him to adjust his mentality, survive the current difficulties, and fight again next year!