When I was in college, there was a classmate in my class who came from the countryside named Ah Fu. He is not outstanding, he is 1.71 meters tall, thin and small, and he is very tanned. When I first arrived, I didn't know him well and felt out of place with him. Ah Fu is also not welcomed at school, and he behaves withdrawn, usually except for his roommates, he is alone at other times.
However, in the freshman semester exam, Ah Fu achieved the first grade in the class, which aroused the curiosity of his classmates. It turned out that Ah Fu had very good grades in the college entrance examination, ranking second in the county, and could go to 985 University, but because of the school's preferential policy, he chose our school.
In addition to studying, he also went out to work, getting up early during the day to memorize materials and reviewing in the dormitory at night. This made me admire, even a little jealous. Ah Fu's academic excellence has attracted him a lot of attention, and he has even become the focus of the whole class. I gradually saw him as a competitor, but I didn't have his diligence and self-discipline and eventually gave up on the idea of surpassing him.
At the beginning of his sophomore year, Ah Fu chose to join the army due to an accident at home to solve his financial problems. Although many people sympathized with him, I was still a little ashamed and thought he was too pathetic. Ten years after graduation, Ah Fu appeared again at the class reunion, which surprised us all.
It turned out that he was admitted to a military academy when he was in the army, and he was transferred to work in a certain government unit in a provincial capital, and his rank and salary were far higher than those of other students in our class. I've been working in the township for 10 years, but I'm still just a small clerk. This made me envious and regretful, because when I graduated from my senior year, I rejected my parents' proposal to join the army.
Today, 8 years later, I am still working in the township, and Ah Fu's achievements may have reached a higher level, right?This makes me wonder if I had been a soldier like Ah Fu back then, would I have had the opportunity to achieve better things?