Chapter 28 Chapter 27 No friends means no team

The first day of the first lunar month just passed, and I participated in a joyous and peaceful party.Today, I found an excuse to leave home and go to my brother's place to see how his Spring Festival was going. The younger brother was sitting there sending text messages, and the text message sounded from time to time. I also took out my phone and suddenly felt very lost. This Spring Festival, apart from Zhao Jun and Xiaoyu, none of my friends sent me text messages of New Year greetings.Both Zhao Jun and Xiaoyu can only be regarded as new friends. My old friends have forgotten me. I suddenly felt the need for friends, which is a spiritual need.And a year ago, I didn't dare to have such a demand.Can't even eat enough, dare to have spiritual needs?nonsense.

I flipped through the address book on my phone, and familiar names popped up one by one.Each name can bring a familiar scene, these scenes seem to be in front of the eyes, but the people are already unfamiliar. After thinking about it, I decided to send Zhang Peng a text message. Zhang Peng is my junior high school alumnus, and now he is the deputy director of a bureau in City C. At that time, there were four classes in one grade in our school. Zhang Peng and I were not in the same class, but because we were similar in family conditions and other aspects, and we both liked to play ball, the relationship has always been very good.

After graduating from junior high school, Zhang Peng was admitted to a teacher training school, and his future is a teacher.But being a teacher is not Zhang Peng's ideal, and his entrance examination for a teacher's degree is just a means to get out of farming. But Zhang Peng still became a teacher. After graduating from a normal school, he was assigned to a small village in our township. He is no longer a farmer, but he still lives among the peasants. There were only two public teachers in the village primary school, so Zhang Peng became the vice principal of course.The following year he became the principal, and two years later, he was transferred to the central school as the vice principal.

Zhang Peng's great leap forward in life began when he was the vice principal of this central school. Once, a leader of the county party committee went to the township to inspect the work, and stopped by the central school to have a look, and found Zhang Peng as a talent.Zhang Peng is said to be a talent because the leader thinks that Zhang Peng is young, and more importantly, Zhang Peng can drink. One year, Zhang Peng, I and another friend drank together, neither of us could beat him.According to him, he will not get drunk after drinking a catty of liquor. In this way, Zhang Peng was transferred to the county education committee as a clerk.

I didn't pay special attention to the future development trajectory. It is said that he changed several units in the county until he was transferred to City C. The pheasant turned into a golden phoenix.I still don't think Zhang Peng has any outstanding abilities.Are you eloquent?He still stutters when he speaks.But he is doing well, he is a few months younger than me, and he is already a deputy virgin. There was a gap between several tracks that were originally running in parallel, and once the gap was opened, the gap became wider and wider. Among the normal students from Zhang Peng's group, only a few were teaching.Most of the others entered the government agencies and took part-time jobs.

And we are always walking in the maze, no one to point out the direction, all have to break through by ourselves.Occasionally, someone will show you a way, only to find out that's not the case. Maybe this is fate.But I don't think so, because fate has never given us equal opportunities. When I first arrived in City C, Zhang Peng was still in the district; in the second year of my arrival in City C, he was transferred. When we first arrived, we didn't have many friends in City C.On weekends, I often squeezed into a bed, either in my rented room or in his dormitory. we are very good friends.

None of us had girlfriends back then, and life was simple and happy. Later, several fellow villagers were also transferred to City C, and the circle became wider.But basically, Zhang Peng and I are the center of this circle.The room I rented became our club. We're all young people talking about everything.But money and women are always old and fresh topics. Or, gather a crowd to play cards. "Fighting Landlords" was what I learned at that time. At that time, my financial situation was not bad, and my income was higher than that of Zhang Peng and the others, so they tried different ways to win my money.Sometimes, even openly cheating.

I never cared, I put my friend's feelings more than anything else.When I go out to eat, someone always greets me to treat me.So I actually paid the bill out of my pocket. My money is arranged by everyone, but I enjoy this state very much. It is a kind of vanity to hold the moon among the stars, just like the feeling of a star. I admit that I am very vain, and my vanity is used to cover up my inferiority complex. I am a migrant worker, and Zhang Peng and the others, either in government agencies or large state-owned enterprises, get together, except to talk about money and women, which is their future.

It seems that they all have a great future, at least they can look forward to.They can look forward to being the director of the bureau in the future, or the general manager of a state-owned enterprise in the future. What can I look forward to? They can see the direction of the future clearly, and then line up in a casual manner, patiently waiting for the opportunity to come.Even if there is no chance of promotion, they don't worry about starvation, anyway, they are supported by the country. I don't know what the future looks like, but it's not destined to be smooth.You have a high salary now, maybe tomorrow you will be unemployed at home.

This is the so-called white-collar workers, bright, confused, and inferior. So, with Zhang Peng and the others, I have low self-esteem in my bones. Because of low self-esteem, spending money is generous, spending money to buy face. Later, Zhang Peng raised funds from his work unit to buy a house, and several other friends also enjoyed this kind of treatment in succession.I have less contact with them. People have houses, do you have them?You arrived in City C earlier than others. Between friends, it is necessary to look at each other.Others are constantly improving and improving, but you are still the same, even worse than before.When you look at your friends, you have to look up to see them.

When you look up to a friend, do you think he is still your friend? At most, you will introduce to other friends: XX is my friend.This is a kind of pride, but also a kind of vanity. Later, my contact with Zhang Peng and the others gradually decreased.Several times Zhang Peng asked me out, but I avoided seeing them, and in the end, I stopped contacting him. When I was about to send a text message to Zhang Peng, I hesitated for a while, afraid that he would think I wanted to curry favor with him.But after the gathering with Zhou Yuan and their relatives yesterday, I felt that I was being mediocre a lot of the time. I think so in my heart, but others may not see it that way. Besides, after thinking about it for a while, I feel that I must reconnect with those old friends. In this society, having no friends means you have no team.A person without a team can't do much. Therefore, even if it is considered flattery, it is no big deal, who in the world does not flatter? When you proudly declare that you and so-and-so are friends, you've already paid for it. So, I still pressed the send button and sent out my best wishes to Zhang Peng. Zhang Peng did not reply to the text message, which was expected, but I was still a little disappointed. However, I have decided to reconnect with these old friends.It's not just spiritual needs, but also, if I really want to look like a dog, I can't avoid them. Avoidance can't change my down-and-out situation. Instead of doing this, I might as well contact them, maybe they can give me a little help. Today is the eighth day of the first lunar month, and we start to go to work. My brother and I are sitting in the office planning our goals for 2007. I said, "I've already made up my mind. I want to work hard this year, earn a house, and have my own free space during the Spring Festival." The younger brother laughed and said, "I often hear you say that you are going to do a lot of work, but now you don't even have the money to buy a toilet." I also laugh. I said to my younger brother, "I think we are still short of something." The younger brother said: "There are many shortages, especially money." I laughed, and I said: "We still lack friends now. If you have few friends, your circle will be narrow, and if your circle is narrow, you will become a frog at the bottom of a well." The younger brother said disapprovingly: "What's the use of those wine and meat friends? Didn't you have many friends before? Where did your friends go when you were doing poorly?" My brother's words choked me.After a pause, I said, "You can't say that. Many things are caused by me, and I can't easily rely on others." It's true that during my poor days I was estranged from many of my friends.Some are deliberately alienated by me, and some are deliberately alienated from me.In short, almost no contact. However, if a person wants to gain a foothold in society, he cannot do without friends. A person's knowledge is always limited, but with the help of a few friends, his knowledge will be improved. Take me now as an example, I don't have a specific idea on how to go in 2007.Follow the path of last year?Last year's strategy was to sell what others wanted. The consequence of this is that we must understand all the needs of customers, and we must at least understand everything as well as customers, otherwise customers may not believe you. According to what we did last year, we hope to do all the business in the world. This is obviously unrealistic. We must change our strategy this year, otherwise people will be exhausted and money may not be earned. Of course, before we have a specific strategy, we have to work hard to earn bit by bit like ants moving house like last year.Otherwise, it will return to the dilemma of 2005. But we have to have a sense of changing strategies, otherwise the final outcome must be bad. What is the strategy for this year?I remember that we also discussed it when we were in the group year with my brother last year, but we didn't discuss it. Therefore, I think our knowledge is not enough, and we need to broaden our horizons. To broaden your horizons, you have to keep learning and make friends. Besides, if you have more friends, you will have a deeper understanding of society. People nowadays have a misunderstanding, thinking that they can understand everything about society through the Internet, which is a big mistake. What does society learn about?Not the Internet, not files, not TV and newspaper media, but friends.A group of friends is a circle, and a circle is a small society. When looking at the big society through a small circle, you can often see it more clearly. Of course this is nonsense and has nothing to do with my current situation. I decided to restore the relationship with those old friends of mine, not for other reasons, but for spiritual needs.