What is life? Survive first before we can live better.
The foundation of life is survival. At this stage, ordinary people, as well as ordinary families, have to participate in the involution, isn't it just to earn resources for survival?
For the present, for the future, we should not take it lightly, but should have the best preparation, as well as the worst preparation. The so-called "people have no long-term concerns, they must have near-term worries" is this truth.
The best preparation is to defend against the risks of life. The worst plan is just to improve your defense, and try not to be caught off guard by life.
The survival strategy of ordinary families, in the next few years, live these "poor days".
01
Live the days of "living within your means".
In the past, they were all promoting "living within your means and spending moderately". Nowadays, they are all promoting "borrowing money and loans, overdraft consumption". The concept of propaganda has undergone a 180-degree change.
For these two concepts, countless people think that it is better to "overdraft consumption", and spend all kinds of lavishly and become a moonlight family, without thinking about the future.
This kind of "moonlight clan" practice is actually not long-lasting. Just imagine, now there is no disease and no pain, and you can still be empty-handed, but if a serious illness is coming in the future, and there is no money, won't you have to wait for death?
I have always felt that the concept of "living within your means and spending moderately" is in line with ordinary people. Ordinary people can't make a lot of money, and they don't have too much savings, so they can only live in moderation?
Don't be brainwashed by the concept of "spending tens of thousands of dollars to buy a bag" in short videos. This kind of consumption model is not suitable for ordinary people. To go deeper, businesses instill the concept of overdraft consumption to ordinary people, just to cut leeks.
For ordinary people, how big a head there is, how big a hat to wear, is the truth.
02
Live a "low desire" life.
There is a sociological term, low desire. It refers to keeping a low desire for all things in life, not extravagant, not delusional, and only living a simple life that suits you.
Young people have low desires, focusing on not buying cars, not buying houses, losing interest in marriage and childbirth, and not having the desire to be promoted and raised.
Middle-aged people have low desires, focus on not having a chicken baby, not overdrawing their bodies, and not wronging themselves for work, and have no pursuit of so-called success, just want to live a plain, simple, and peaceful life.
Is it right to keep your desires low? I think that's in line with the situation of modern people. Isn't it a pipe dream that his ability is limited, and he still fantasizes about being rich and rich?
The so-called "heart is higher than the sky, life is thinner than paper". There are always some people whose inner desires are higher than the sky, but they don't have this strength, isn't their fate thinner than paper, and they can only get worse and worse?
Low libido, in the past, may have been a derogatory term. And today, and even in the future, is a compliment. Because this way of life can allow ordinary people to live for a long time.
03
Live a "debt-free" life.
As we all know, this is an era of national debt. You have been in debt for more than ten years, and he has been in debt for twenty or thirty years, and even the surplus grain has been overdrawn, so naturally you will be under a lot of pressure.
While complaining about the debt, we might as well think about the root cause of the debt. The first is desire, and the second is the psychology of following the crowd.
Desire, I've talked about it above. As for following the crowd, this is very common in the group of ordinary people. When others say that it is suitable to take over now, there will be a large number of ordinary people who are going to take over the plate in a hurry, without the slightest ability to think.
Teach you a universal thinking formula: if there is a good thing, the elite will monopolize it for the first time, and will not tell it to ordinary people. The reason why I tell ordinary people is because these are not good things, but bad things.
Fertilizer water does not flow into outsiders' fields, and what flows to outsiders' fields is not fertilizer water, but rotten water. Therefore, in the face of any trend, especially those related to takeovers and debts, we must be cautious.
To put it mildly, at this moment, you are not unemployed, so you dare to be in debt for many years. But can you guarantee that you won't lose your job in the future? No one can guarantee it. Only by looking far away can we see the truth clearly.
04
Live the days of "saving money to save your life".
In my opinion, in the face of a complex and unpredictable environment, ordinary people should live a "conservative" life. For example, save more money, save more gold and silver.
Why are people frantically speculating on gold these days? Because gold has a very strong anti-risk effect. No matter what period it is, if you have gold, you will have a better chance of being alive and secure.
The so-called "Taiping antiques, gold in troubled times" is this truth. People who have savings, gold and silver, and those who have nothing, live a completely different life.
You have savings, you have gold and silver, and even if you are unemployed now and can no longer find a job, you can live temporarily. On the contrary, if there is no savings, no gold or silver, once you lose your job and you can't find a job, you will really be doomed.
Gold and silver can also understand why ordinary people should attach importance to savings? Because deposits are the life-saving charm of all living beings. In Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, now when you go to the hospital to grab a bed, you need to fight who has the money.
As the famous writer Oscar Wilde said, when I was young, I thought that money was the most important thing in life, and when I was old, I realized that it was true.