When my father was in hospital, there was an interesting incident that made me speechless at the time.
At that time, the three-person ward where my father lived had two unoccupied beds. One afternoon when I went to visit my father, I found that the adjacent bed was occupied. A middle-aged man was doing an infusion, scrolling through his mobile phone, and was lying on the bed with a calm look on his face. He felt like he was a frequent visitor to the hospital, and he was also a little greasy.
When I walked in and found him, I nodded to him, which was like a stranger's greeting. He didn't respond. I don't know if he didn't see me nodding or he was just a greasy and numb old man.
I then put my backpack in the cabinet and checked what my father had in the cabinet. Then I walked to my father's bedside and continued to try to talk to him. At this time, Lao Jianghu started to take the initiative to talk to me. I can't remember what he said. We chatted slowly and slowly, and later asked me what I did. I started to make up a story, and it was very natural. The general idea was that I used to be responsible for the maintenance and secondary development of the company's business system in a multinational company, and then resigned. The original development of this system was completed by an outsourcing company. Later, the outsourcing company went bankrupt. I was the only one in the company who maintained this system. I also went to a bankrupt outsourcing company for training, so in addition to the outsourcing company, I was the one who was qualified for maintenance, secondary development and modification. In addition, due to changes in business and industry policies, I later modified a lot of things in the system, and this system became my exclusive system. No one knows the internal data structure better than me, so they recalled me again, and I went back. In addition, the company has branches in Beijing, Xiamen, Ningbo, and Shenzhen using the same system, and my responsibilities have also been extended to the branches. In short, my role in this company is huge and irreplaceable.
The compilation was very smooth. After listening to this, the greasy middle-aged man was silent for a few seconds and asked: Do you have an annual salary of five million?
I. . . Speechless.
I could see that he wasn't joking when he asked. He asked in a calm and natural manner, as if he was asking if your annual salary was more than 100,000 yuan.
I hurriedly said no. In fact, I could continue to make it up, but if I didn’t have the confidence to make up something that was too far from reality, it would naturally look fake, and I didn’t have the confidence to make it up. At this time, I looked at my father. I couldn't help but laugh while talking about five million. My father, who was suffering from cerebral infarction, actually laughed at me. He was mocking me, and I could see it.
Later, he continued to talk about his content. It turned out that he lived on Guilin East Street, very close to me. He lived in a closed loop of Guilin East and West Street. I continued to listen and quickly recognized that he was a business owner. He must have had twists and turns in his life. He had no parents since he was one year old. He was raised by his grandma. He was like an orphan. He was from Jiangxi and came to Shanghai to work hard. It seemed that he was successful and had his own business. My usual hobby is playing golf. I kept talking about the various benefits of golf. Golf can develop a philosophy of life. I muttered to myself that table tennis can also develop a philosophy of life. It doesn’t have to be golf. In the second half, I started to talk about mine, and he listened. I talked vividly about the things I had done in the past, including my resignation from the Top 500, walking in Tibetan areas with a backpack, and opening an inn in Daocheng. He also listened with great interest. After the infusion, he said goodbye and went home. I said goodbye to the world, and he said see you on Guilin East Street.
There are all kinds of people in the ward. Although the ward is a small group and cannot be compared with society, the span of the crowd will be larger than what you usually meet. You don't know the story or identity of the person lying in the bed next to you.
I hated coming to the hospital before. I felt that I felt psychologically and physically uncomfortable as soon as I entered the hospital. This time I went in and out of the hospital and I no longer hate the hospital as a place. I still have a lot of feelings. After getting to know doctors, nurses and caregivers, their work is completely different from that of white-collar workers in office buildings. It is a special industry. For the first time, I felt their perspective.