The road is always there, and we should all live with faith and dignity.

Text / Gil

It is an unforgettable memory. If you can stick to the end, you know that this answer is not a chicken soup! It is just a common story of ordinary people.

At that time, I worked in a foreign company, earned 4,500, and shared the house with three other people. I shared a room with another sister, and the other two lived with two men. I remember very clearly that the rent for the two of us is 1500, and the rent for the other two is 800 per person.

The most envious job at the time was not a senior white-collar worker, but a landlord in Beijing. Every quarter, when the time is up, the renter of the small electric car turns around the circle, and then the living expenses for the next three months will be available. They lifted the cage birds, squatting in their arms, carrying walnuts in their hands, and gambling on the graves to raise pigeons, but they have houses, which is enough.

I was particularly impressed by the fact that a female colleague at that time was a second-generation demolition. We asked her, "Where is your house demolished, so many rooms are still coming to work, and it’s hard work." She said a word that I am completely ruined: When I come to work, I am looking for something to do, and I can't do beauty every day. And so on. Although the salary was very low, I removed the necessary transportation expenses, rent, meals, shopping and other expenses, and actually had a monthly balance. During the 2008 Olympics, I raised my first dog in Beijing. The name is also very strange. It is called Dollar. It happened that year, the dollar depreciated.

I can go to the company at 8:30 every day, I have never been late; I am sitting in Beijing's most blocked 7XX and 300 every day, and I am practicing the golden bell cover of the iron cloth shirt. Every time I move, I change the shadow and change it. When you get on the bus, you can know which people can get to the next stop, and which people will never go.

When I was waiting for the car in the summer, I was often splattered by a car that was flying fast. I always stared at the car for a while. Gyeonggi was probably learned at that time. As soon as I reached the flat ground, I stepped on the sandals of the leather shoes and walked on the floor tiles that the aunt had just wiped. I was particularly embarrassed. In the winter, the hand is red, and the company has no feeling in the forehead within half an hour. Sitting on the company's cold toilet, the butt can feel the intimate warmth.

My colleagues and I bring rice every day, although it's just a simple dish with a simple taste of simple ingredients. We share the food and cooking skills and share the fun and skills of crowding out the bus.

On the weekend, I will get up early with my best friends. I will gather at Deshengmen. I will take a few hours bus to go to the various suburbs of Beijing to climb the mountain and walk through the zipper. At the same time, I will have dinner together, drink, bragging, nonsense, ideal life. Looks like a topic that everyone loves.

At that time, I never considered why I wanted to come to Beijing and stay in Beijing. The simple praise of my boss is that I can play for several nights. When the old staff walks, I will look at me and smile, watching me stare at the computer. The look is full of satisfaction.

At that time, I felt that I had the best bosses and colleagues in the world. They/they had influenced my life. At that time, we were sincere, self-willed, and shining, but some light was not visible to the naked eye, but Look at it with your heart. In fact, I have never deliberately saved money, but the money is really enough. I am really happy, really simple.

I still remember that the first car I bought in 2019 was a used car, the red-colored Kia Maxima, 04 years, when I took the key from the original owner, I almost cried because of that moment. I am magically feeling that I have integrated into this city.

I treat it like my family, although it is no longer fashionable, no longer has shiny paint and white interior, but quietly enters the softest piece in my heart, that kind of moving, even if I change The new car has never been seen before.

Time is moving forward. Five years have passed. Many of my thoughts are not as simple as they were at the time. It seems that I have gradually seen through the world. I feel very helpless and perhaps even weaker.

Nowadays, I go to work at 10 o'clock every day, still can't sleep, I still often use the traffic jam as an excuse to be late; I used to imagine that I have a kitchen, but I have never taken it before. I used to imagine that I have a car. I have bought a second car on the weekend, I have bought a second car, I have my own house, I have several times the monthly salary, but I am tired of coping with it, I am not happy, some People say this is mature.

Unknowingly writing a lot, maybe a memory, or maybe some kind of resonance, returning to this topic, 5000 dollars is not a standard nor a boundary, the change of your own needs is the real standard and boundary. Of course, the reference also has your greed, laziness, and a lost thing called youth that is not afraid of failure.

supplement:

There is indeed a lot of helpless life in Beijing. We all have been cynical, lamenting the unfair fate, lamenting the world’s unpopularity, and then brushing Weibo, soaking the world, playing “sneeze”, and even trying to pass this ridiculous and hopeful day of the end of 2012. To change everything that is available.

In the past, all the dust came to the dust, and the soil returned to the earth. We still have to pack up and bravely go on the road. More, or we should be grateful, see even the slightest light in the future and stick to it, for your own slightly naive goals.

In short, remember, the road has always been. And we should all live with faith and dignity.