A few nights ago, I was on my way home, I encountered a traffic jam, suddenly, a classmate who had not been in touch for more than two years called me, and in the second half of the night, he asked me to have two drinks.
I've been drinking for more than a year, and I really don't want to break it, so I said, why don't we have tea.
Make an appointment to a nearby teahouse. When they met, they found out that he had been drunk and hadn't seen him for two years, his face was bitter, his hair was gray, and he was in a hurry.
A few years ago, he was doing first-hand house sales, and he had a team under him, which was very good, which was regarded as a typical example of our classmates' successful career change, starting from scratch, in less than ten years, there were two suites in quasi-first-tier cities, one in the core of the high-tech zone, one in the suburbs, villas, more than 300 square meters.
In the past few years, every time we met, I always saw him walking with the wind and looking bright. After two years, when we meet again, I am haggard and feel ten years older. The first thing we said when we met was: Are your stocks still speculating?
I said, the households have been sold for more than three years. If you don't play it, you can't play it. He said, it's good not to play, it's good not to play, just live in a down-to-earth way.
I asked him, did you just break up the game after drinking like this today?
He smiled bitterly and said, what is the game, one person drinks.
I was taken aback again.
He said that he was empty, and now he lives in a rented house, with one bedroom and one living room, and a family of four. To go home is to suffer for him, and he would rather stay outside until midnight and go home and fall on the sofa to make do.
After chatting carefully, I learned that he had invested in a restaurant with someone in recent years, and played private equity with others, both of which were huge losses, first sold the high-tech house, and at the beginning of the year, the bank auctioned the villa, and his family of four had to rent a house, and his wife had an income of seven or eight thousand yuan every month.
The key is that he still has hundreds of thousands of yuan in foreign debts, and his wife doesn't know that in the past few months, he has been forced to go to the wall. Every night.
Ten. I drove home at one or two o'clock, and when I got to the garage, I couldn't go upstairs, so I drank a few taels of wine first, and I didn't go home until after twelve o'clock, and occasionally my wife was still waiting for him, which made him the most sad, so I had to say that it was still for entertainment.
He said that his classmates, colleagues, and friends in the past have hardly been in touch with each other, and they have no face. We shared weal and woe back then, I know you, so I asked you to talk, you don't have to be afraid, I don't ask you to borrow money, it's just a pure chat, you can accompany me in the middle of the night, and I thank you!
When I was separated from him, it was already past three o'clock in the middle of the night when I came home, and I still couldn't sleep, and I kept recalling some of the things he said. Over the years, we've been tossing and choking enough, and the result is like this, what's wrong with us. To be honest, I'm quite worried about him these days, I'm afraid that he will collapse, but when I think about it, I feel that he is not, and in the first few years after coming out of school, our experience should have allowed him to get through this difficult time.