Since ancient times, we have all admired frugality.
What is Thrifty?
China Youth Network gives a good explanation:
True thrift is not stinginess, but frequent and efficient savings, not a dime, but appropriate.
I think so.
Thrift is not unprincipled stinginess, only to be reasonable and frugal is where a person's wisdom lies.
As the saying goes, there is giving.
In life, no matter how frugal you are, you must not save these few things, otherwise you will get poorer and poorer.
You can't save money to invest in studying
There is such a question on Zhihu:
"What is the most important investment in a person's life?"
One of the highly praised replied:
"Invest in yourself. ”
Investing in yourself is an art and pays off.
If you look at the excellent people around us, you will find that they all know how to invest in themselves.
But some people, since stepping out of the school gates, give up investing in themselves.
They believe that what they learn in school is the capital to survive later.
In this shallow cognition, they give up learning, growth, and more possibilities in life.
After graduating from university, Lao Hu successfully entered a foreign company.
When he saw that other classmates were still anxious about their work, he secretly rejoiced that he had received a high salary.
He is content with his current life and realizes that he must work hard to keep his iron job.
In the future work, he will be conscientious and do his job well.
Staying in his comfort zone for too long made him forget that there was fierce competition outside.
He gave up on improving himself, always thinking that as long as he worked hard enough, he could stay in this position forever.
Despite the outside, the Internet industry is booming, and there are more opportunities.
But his company has been tepid.
He also sometimes wonders if he wants to get a piece of the pie.
But thinking about the comfortable life now, and the salary is not lower than that of the Internet industry, I feel that there is no need to toss around, and then give up.
Later, the salary in the Internet industry became higher and higher, and as he grew older, he lost the courage to toss.
After struggling a few times occasionally, he completely lay flat.
He thought that at least he was in a foreign company and had a stable salary, as long as he did his best to survive to the end and raise his children, it would be very good.
But slowly he found that the company was no longer hiring, and the usual rich refreshments became less and less until they disappeared.
He was very apprehensive in his heart, but he still comforted himself that it was only temporary, and it would be fine after a while.
As a result, what should come will still come, due to the company's sluggish revenue, profits have declined seriously, and Lao Hu has been laid off.
I thought that the stable work would continue forever, but it turned out that it was gone.
There is a saying:
"Stability is instability.
True stability is not that you have food in one unit, but that you are strong enough to eat wherever you go. ”
Indeed, we can only be truly stable if we become strong enough.
The premise of being strong is that you need to constantly invest in yourself and enrich your brain.
If you are reluctant to spend money on investing in yourself, one day you will be eliminated by this society.
The times are progressing, the society is developing rapidly, only by constantly learning and investing in oneself can we go more and more smoothly on the road of life in the future.
Invest healthy money, you can't save
I saw a video a few days ago, which made people feel sorry:
Xiao Zhao, a 28-year-old woman from Hangzhou, suffered from stomach cancer due to eating leftovers and expired food in the refrigerator for a long time.
When she was a child, Xiao Zhao's family conditions were not good, so she developed the habit of saving.
She was reluctant to throw away the leftovers at home, and always ate them after the second meal.
Even some expired food, she is reluctant to throw it away, as long as the taste does not change, she eats it all.
Due to poor eating habits, Xiao Zhao slowly developed stomach pain and bloating.
At first, she didn't pay attention to it, thinking it was an ordinary stomach problem.
It wasn't until one day that she developed symptoms of hematemesis that she realized the seriousness of the problem.
After going to the hospital for an examination, the doctor gave the result that stomach cancer was advanced.
This news was like a thunderbolt from the blue, and Xiao Zhao was overwhelmed.
She could never have imagined that she would be involved in cancer at such a young age.
In order to save for a while, Xiao Zhao lost the health of the rest of his life and countless amounts of money.
She had to spend the rest of her time in the torment of illness.
Xiao Zhao in the video is distressing, and there is a comment that I also agree with:
"When I was seriously ill, I realized that the real saving of money is to have a healthy body.
To eat healthily, it only takes a few dollars to waste some food. ”
Yes, wasting that bit of food isn't worth it when it comes to health.
We only have one life, and if we are overly frugal with it, we are obliterating it little by little.
At first there are no traces, but in the end it will give us a fatal blow.
I've seen a sentence like this:
"Health is a deposit in the bank of life, and overdrawing health is destroying oneself. ”
A healthy body is your own, and it will reward you as you treat it.
When you don't cherish it and squander it unscrupulously, it will also move away from you step by step.
When you love it and cherish it, it will be with you all the way to the end of your life.
As the so-called health is the foundation of everything, no matter what you are fighting for on the road of life, in the end, you are fighting for health.
Don't think that you are young and your body is fine, when you overdraw your body, it doesn't even leave you room for regret.
So don't be stingy with your health, every penny you spend on your health, it will pay you back a hundredfold.
The money of filial piety to parents cannot be saved
In life, there are some things that can be made up for if you miss something.
But filial piety to parents, missing can no longer make up for it.
When I was a child, we thought of our parents as shackles and always wanted to escape.
By the time we understand the love of our parents, we are no longer young.
Parents are slowly getting old, while they are still there, practice filial piety in time, and don't let it become irreparable regrets.
In "The World", Zhou Bingyi, as the deputy mayor, has a lot of things to do in the unit.
So he dedicates most of his time to work, always thinking about doing his job well and earning more money.
He thinks that his parents are still young and can wait, but he doesn't notice that his parents are slowly aging.
When my father fainted and was admitted to the hospital, he was not at home.
When he got the news, he hurried home, but complained that his brother didn't call him in the first place.
He blamed his younger brother for coming back late to reduce the guilt in his heart.
When his father heard this, he was a little displeased, and told him:
If he shouldn't come back and say that his brother is not, if he wasn't still alive, his brother wouldn't have died unjustly.
Zhou's father waited for the children to come back, and after fulfilling the wish of family reunion, he passed away peacefully in his sleep.
After my father left, my mother couldn't bear it anymore and went with my father.
The pain of losing his parents has become a thorn in Zhou Bingyi's heart.
In order to make up for the debt to his parents, he decided to uproot the poor people in the light of words, which was also the fulfillment of his father's last wish.
I agree with this sentence:
"Filial piety to one's parents is the foundation of resolving sorrows. ”
Don't always think about how much time your parents have, and don't make your parents wait.
In old age, their desire is to have their children by their side.
We can't be with us all the time, so we go home and see more.
Talk to your parents about your parents' shortcomings and buy them some things that they are usually reluctant to buy.
Don't always say that when you are free, when you have money, you can afford to wait, but your parents can't afford to wait.
The money that should be spent on parents must not be saved;
The time you should spend with your parents must not be annoyed.
Parents are our blessings, and with their blessings, we can go further.
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I've seen a sentence like this:
"Spending money is not a sin, but a responsibility and an investment.
Only by spending money where it is valuable can you get more returns and benefits. ”
Spending money on learning is an investment in your mind, and it will make you richer and richer.
Spending money on health is an investment in your body, and it is the foundation of your career.
Spending money on our parents is our reward to our parents, and it will bring us more blessings.
In life, don't just look at the present, care about temporary losses, and the money you should spend must not be saved.
Spend money in three places and you're bound to get richer and richer.
May we be smart people, learn to spend money, and have a life of more and more abundance.
Author | Ziqiao Dandan, a second-child mother who strives to grow upward.
Picture | Submitted by Ziqiao photography enthusiasts