In the past few days, one of the hottest topics on the whole Internet is Sun Weidong, a Fudan physics genius wandering in the United States.
The homeless man's name is Sun Weidong, 54 years old this year, born in 1969 in Changjing Town, Jiangyin, Jiangsu Province. Don't look at him now, once upon a time, he was also a man of the hour.
Sun Weidong has been gifted and intelligent since he was a child, and he is one of the best geniuses in the local area, and after successfully entering Nanjing Middle School in Jiangyin City, he was admitted to Fudan University at the age of 16 majoring in physics. After graduating with a bachelor's degree, he went to the United States for further study and studied for a master's degree and a doctorateHe also received his master's and doctorate degrees in physics.
He is said to have worked on Wall Street for a year or two as a software developerThe annual salary is about $13-140,000Converted into ** RMB of nearly 1 million (the exchange rate was higher at that time). The annual salary is one million, not to mention in that era, even now it is a proper high-paying job.
And after such a proud son, it was discovered that he had been a homeless man in the United States since 2007He has been wandering in the United States for 16 years.
* It has sparked a wide discussion among the public: what is it that has made a once high-spirited teenager fall into such a situation?
Why did the genius doctor of physics end up on the streets?
According to Sun Weidong himself, in the 90s of the last century, he met a Chinese woman with a daughter in New York, and in the process of getting along, the two gradually fell in love and got married.
According to netizens,The woman divorced Sun Weidong after marrying him and getting a U.S. green cardThis caused Sun Weidong to suffer a very big blow, and he had serious psychological problems and began auditory hallucinations, which caused his work and life to be seriously suspended, and he could no longer live a normal life, so he became a homeless man.
As soon as the news came out, many people accused the woman of crossing the river and demolishing the bridge. But in fact, this part is not real, because according to Sun Weidong himself, he met his ex-wife when he was studyingLater, the two divorced because he was in a bad stateAnd there has been contact before, but it was only later that the connection was disconnected.
Later, another insider broke the news of a different point of view.
According to Sun Weidong's classmates,Sun Weidong is a gambler, he is very addicted to gambling, and he will go to gambling as soon as he gets his salaryFly to Las Vegas almost every week, and finally bankrupted his family because of gambling and suffered from auditory hallucinations, and it was for this reason that his wife divorced him.
Other students also came out to corroborate that Sun Weidong had borrowed money from his classmates to gamble, and he had not repaid the money for almost 30 years, so no one in the physics department was willing to help him.
AbsolutelySun Weidong did not mention these things about his gambling in an interview, just said that he fell here because of economic instability, but he also said that if he was more down-to-earth, he could also find a job with a good monthly salary.
It is said that what the gambler said can't be believed at all, if the things about his gambling are true, then it can only be said that he who looks pitiful now also has something hateful, if he is not addicted to gambling, he will not lose his life, and his ex-wife is not a merciless person, but a "man with a back pot".Does the story of the fall of genius have to add emotional and female factors to be interesting enough?
I believe you still remember the very popular movie "Disappearing Her" last year, in which Li Muzi was killed because she believed that her gambler husband would really get lost.
There is really no lower limit for gamblers to go crazy, and if they don't leave as soon as possible, they may ruin more than one person's life.
stayed in the United States for decades and refused to return to China to mourn his father
After his story spread, many people expressed hope to help him return to China to reunite with his family, so someone contacted Sun Weidong's younger brother.
But surprisingly, the younger brother who got the news of his brother did not show happiness, but said that his mother did not know about it at present, and he himself was exhaustedI hope you don't ** anymore.
It stands to reason that the family who has been missing for many years should be surprised to find it, why is my brother having this attitude?
It turned out that the family had already been cold to Sun Weidong, because they had also looked for him before, but they did not receive any response. Sun Weidong also admitted,He has only returned to China once in so many yearsAt that time, he wanted to return to his parents with 30,000 US dollars (the authenticity is doubtful), but it was stolen on the way home, which made him very angry, so he vowed never to return to China.
Soon after he returned to the United States, his father died, and Sun Weidong did not return to China for funeral, but cut off contact with his family.
Honestly, if your family does this, can you still forgive?
According to U.S. law, he can receive $1,000 a month in unemployment and poverty benefits, and he can also go to free medical treatment. According to his own account, he had been spending the night in an Internet café before, and in the cold winter he went to the subway station for the night, and some subway stations would be better if they had heating and stools.
Sun Weidong also expressed his desire to return to China, but he had no documents and money, so he could not return home.
Seeing his miserable situation, there are still many well-wishers who want to help him. It is reported that volunteers from the Fudan Alumni Association are helping himSun Weidong has been settled, someone regularly accompanies him, but because he is now an American citizen, how to deal with it in the future is more troublesome, and it is still being discussed.
As for the issue of rescuing Sun Weidong, netizens were divided into two factions to fight.
Some people think that it is a pity that such a genius has come to this pointIf there is a relevant official body willing to take him back,And find him a suitable job, maybe his profession can be of greater use.
Of course, there are also many people who say that since Sun Weidong is already an American citizen, he is an American, and he has not starved to death in the United States for so many yearsLet the United States take care of its own citizensAfter all, he didn't plan to return to China at the beginning, so China didn't need to care about him. And when the motherland needed him, he chose to go away, and now he wants the motherland's help when he is down, which is really wishful thinking.
For Sun Weidong, he is now an American citizenIt's really not suitable for the official to make arrangements for him againSince he is an American, it should be in charge of the United States, and there is no need for China to gather social forces to pay attention to him.
And in **, we can see that Sun Weidong's thinking is still very clear, and there is no major problem with his body, if he wants to live a normal life, he has decades to choose again, and he can still rely on himself, instead of indulging in the past, and he does not need to rely on other people's charity. So it's entirely his own choice to live on the streets, and no one else is to blame.
Of course, for his alumni and some netizens, if someone is willing to help him, or has had some friendship with him and is more sympathetic to him, then we will not stop it, because these are personal behaviors.
Write at the end
Regarding Sun Wendong, we can only say that his current misery was not formed overnight.
For gamblers,The moment you start gambling, you lose control of your lifeSo what kind of situation you fall into is to blame, and if you still want to pull your family back, it is even more hateful. So if Sun Weidong's gambling addiction is really that big, it is also very correct for his ex-wife to divorce him, after all, who knows what he will do when he becomes addicted to gambling?
And obviously, Sun Weidong's own psychological endurance also has a big problem, as the saying goes, "every family has a scripture that is difficult to read", everyone will encounter all kinds of difficulties in their lives, if they can't get out, they can only be knocked down, and if you want to continue walking, all you can do is to adjust your mentality, after all, the reality is very cruel, no one will always help you.