You Haven't Been Poor, You Don't Understand
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There was once a seemingly ordinary question on Zhihu:
The distance between a hard seat and a berth on a train is only 100 yuan, but why do so many people choose the hard seat?
The top answer was written for a 21-year-old young girl with a disease.
She goes to another big city every month to see a doctor, riding a late-night hard seat, and when the sky is bright, it just arrives at the station. Every time it's 4:30, she goes to the toilet to tidy up and brush her teeth, and departs at 5:30, and exits the station, and walks to the hospital, just as the sun is rising.
As for why?
Because the train ticket is not expensive, and there's still the cost of accommodation.
Because there are so many people in this world,
His time is cheaper than money, and his comfort is cheaper than money.
Some netizens also wrote:
This is nothing, some people would rather not buy a hard seat just to save money, riding a three-day-two-night motorcycle home, as long as they spend a few boxes of oil money and a few meals, they can save hundreds of yuan in transportation fees.
The highest-rated answer is only a few words:
You haven't been poor, you don't understand.
So the answer is:It's not about 'just costing 100 yuan', but about 'actually costing 100 yuan'!
There was once a news that circulated widely online and later became a joke:
A reporter went deep into the mountains to interview a single mother, a dilapidated small house, and the house was very poor. A three-year-old boy was holding a bowl in his hands, and the bowl was full of noodles.
The reporter said: 'You can't always give the child this.'
The mother paused and reluctantly said, 'Not always, this is the child's birthday. The child has been waiting for this for a long time.'
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I also heard a more poignant story:
A few young men stopped their cars on the side of the road, and were 'bumped' by a group of beggars.
They got off the car and found a 70-year-old old beggar lying next to the car, and he stretched his arms under the wheels, obviously trying to extort money.
Fortunately, it didn't crush him. The driver was furious and was stopped by his colleagues.
Seeing the old man, they thought of giving him some money to settle the matter, and asked the old man, 'Do you need me to take you to the hospital?'
As a result, the old man said a heartbreaking sentence: 'Please, can you take me to see my granddaughter?' Then he knelt down.
It turned out that the old man had been begging for three or four years in this area. Two years ago, he found a little girl, and the two of them lived together. However, the little girl had a fever two days ago, and he didn't have money to see a doctor, and he didn't know what to do.
So he saw young people driving a car and started picking up garbage, thinking of trying his luck.
Later, the young people took the old man on the car, and guided him to find his granddaughter. He refused to get on the car, saying he could run, and ran to the car to lead the way.
A 70-year-old old man running in front of the car looks very poignant and sad.
When they arrived at the place where he settled, there was just a pile of garbage like home.
A five-six-year-old girl was covered with a quilt that was no longer recognizable.
Fortunately, after checking the girl at the nearby hospital, she wasn't serious, she had a fever caused by a cold, and after taking medicine, she would get better.
After leaving the hospital, the young man asked the old man, 'If you had stepped on the accelerator and released the clutch, wouldn't your arm be disabled?'
The old man shook his head and said, 'It's a disabled arm, but it can save my granddaughter, and it's worth it.'
This sentence made everyone choked and speechless.
Can you imagine, to get a fever, you need to exchange a disabled arm for it?
It's said that poverty limits a person's imagination,
But often,
Wealth will also greatly limit your imagination!
You can put aside the immediate suffering and look for poetry and distant places,
But many people, their feet are stuck in the mud, just living is already a great effort.
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However, I wrote so much, not to use these one after another seemingly tragic stories to make people cry, or to make people feel that it's good that there are even more tragic stories, so that we can feel a little happier.
In fact, after listening to it, you still haven't become happy.
When I was young in school, I studied humanities, which was easy. During class, we would chat about recent situations. During breaks, we would eat and play.
But one teacher's words have been deeply imprinted in my memory. When we were about to leave class, he asked us:
'What do you understand about the statement that 'all people are born equal'?'
This statement comes from the American Declaration of Independence in 1776, but it has become a classic due to this statement.
The teacher continued: 'Has anyone of you can give an example of people born equal?'
'Remember, this is a nonsense sentence, don't take it too seriously.
We looked at each other blankly.
The teacher continued: 'But the happiness and satisfaction that people experience may not be the same.'
For so many years, the scene of that class and that teacher's words are still deeply imprinted in my mind.
The teacher is right, a person's appearance, wealth, and background do not determine that everyone is born equal, this is very disappointing.
However, the acquisition of happiness is not necessarily the same, this is even more disappointing.
Some people find happiness and satisfaction easily.
For example, a berth ticket.
For example, a bowl of noodles for a birthday.
For example, a cold and fever can be cured.
Perhaps the protagonists in the stories above, in our eyes, are living such a difficult life,
But from a certain perspective,
Everyone who is less fortunate than us can experience happiness.
We often spend our days like gears, tightening our lives, like mice in cages, turning around and around, wanting to be happy but become more and more difficult.
In our lives, it may cost 1000 yuan to buy a bowl of noodles, and the resulting deliciousness and satisfaction.
After working hard for a long time, having a lot of things, but it's hard to experience happiness.
We are even more pitiful than them.
In Hangzhou, a young girl went missing. This hides the victims that you can't see.
