The happiness of life is actually very simple.
Brother Cun is a former colleague of mine. We haven’t contacted each other for a long time. A few days ago, he suddenly looked for me on WeChat and asked if I had time. He wanted to invite me to Shanghai to accompany him to discuss a project and meet some investors.
I refused at first because the previous two experiences of meeting investors had left a huge psychological shadow on me.
The village brother sent me eight voice messages in one breath, saying that you can come, the round trip fare will be reimbursed for you, and I will take care of your food and housing. I just moved to a new home, so you can come and visit me.
So, after hearing what he said, I, an enthusiastic, helpful boy with a sweet soul, immediately agreed to his request and rolled from Hangzhou to Shanghai. We won’t talk about the
project for now, but after visiting Brother Cun’s life, I was indeed deeply touched.
To my surprise, a pure-bred straight man, known as "Zhangjiang High-tech Xiao Wangfeng". I originally thought that the house would be like a trash can, with no place to stand, but when I walked in, it was completely beyond my expectation. UNBELIEVABLE (unbelievable)!
To be honest, I still don’t know how Brother Cun left Zhongguancun and became a designer from a product manager. I just remember that when we went to work together, he was very fond of the house and the decoration. Many years ago, just when everyone thought Brother Cun would roll up his sleeves and work hard in Zhongguancun, he resolutely left Beijing and came to Shanghai alone with his luggage to work hard.
can see that after all these years, Brother Cun seems to be doing well. Coffee machine, drum washing machine , smart toilet, fingerprint lock, smart sink , federal furniture ... In this house that seems to be only thirty or forty square meters, Brother Cun actually has it all.
I asked Brother Cun, how much did this house cost?
He said it was rented for 6,000 yuan a month. I asked, if you have arranged the rented house so well, is there something wrong with it? Do you plan to rent here for the rest of your life?
He said that living here is relatively close to my company, mainly for convenience, and the surrounding facilities are complete. Moreover, I have signed a three-year contract with the landlord, so I will not move in the short term.
I said, then why don't you save your money, save a down payment first, and then buy a house of your own? When the time comes, you won’t feel it’s a pity no matter how you arrange it.
He said that being able to afford a house does not necessarily mean you will have a good life.
"Why do you have to have your own house and a real estate certificate with your own name on it in order to have a perfect life? Don't you see people living in rented houses abroad? They don't delay themselves because of a real estate certificate. Pursue a quality life.”
Brother Cun’s words made me feel ashamed.
Your attitude towards life determines what kind of life you live.
Although I have read articles such as "The house is rented, but the life is not" a long time ago, I only understood the meaning after I carefully examined Brother Cun's life.
A house is actually a reflection of a person's taste and accomplishment, whether you bought it or rented it.
Maybe you have the same idea as me before: after I get rich and buy a house, what kind of life will I live, and what kind of decoration and design will I want to make there.
However, this is not the case.
I don’t believe that you live in a rented house, which is smoky and full of garbage. How can you live a refined life after you own a house? I also don’t believe that you can’t even take care of the toilet and kitchen now. With a high-end apartment, After adding kitchenware and high-end bathroom ware, you can suddenly become stylish.
I have seen many people who love life. Although they don’t have much money, they can still live an orderly and very warm life in a small house. I have also seen magnificent rooms filled with all kinds of messy garbage.
can only say that sometimes small things in life are not determined by money, but by habits and personality.
Cun Ge’s incident reminds me of a Japanese home renovation show I watched some time ago.
has an issue called "Home with Shower Outside the Window". The person who requested renovation was a mother raising two children by herself. Her house only had 9 square meters on the first floor and 7 square meters on the second floor. She rented this place 10 years ago. , opened a small canteen on the first floor and lived on the second floor.
The strange thing about this house is that there is only one toilet, which is located together with the canteen. In order not to affect the mother's business, the child has to call first every time to ask if there is anyone in the toilet. What's even more embarrassing is that every time they take a bath, the children need to climb over the wall to the outside on the second floor and climb out of the window to wash in the shower room on the balcony. The shower room is only 1 square meter.
In fact, what touches me most about this program is not the designer’s magic hands that realize ordinary people’s dream of pursuing a quality life, but the family’s attitude towards life.
So thinking about this, I began to understand a little bit why Brother Cun insisted on laying good carpets, installing the most advanced electric toilet, and buying a coffee machine and a front-loading washing machine in his small rented house. Give yourself the most comfortable care within your financial capacity.
Because this is a place where you can quickly regain your blood after you go out to fight, struggle, and work hard every day.
You may say, ah, I am already so busy every day, and I really don’t have time to tidy up the house, clean the room, arrange the furniture, and put flowers on the table when I get home.
This reminds me of a saying. Many people are unwilling to clean their rooms too clean because they are worried that they will have to face their inner troubles after cleaning their rooms.
We always like to use superficial busyness and clutter to cover up and escape the depressed emotions inside, so the contradictory emotions accumulate like the clutter in the room.
I had dinner at my village brother’s house at noon. He made me a bowl of noodles. During the meal, he told me a story. When
first came to Shanghai, I once attended a kitchenware brand launch conference. There was an interactive session called "The Cabinet in My Heart". The host asked everyone to draw their own cupboard on a transparent slide.
The village brother remembered that he once worked overtime and walked out of the subway at night. He looked at the lights of high-rise buildings and the street lights were light blue and yellow. At that time, he thought, one day, one of the lights must belong to my own.
So he combined this idea with the theme and drew it on the slide. Sure enough, Brother Cun won applause from everyone at the press conference and won the grand prize.
I tilted my head and looked at Brother Cun’s cabinet. Sure enough, it was yellow and blue. In the eyes of others, it may just be " Mediterranean style ", but everyone who has listened to the story knows that this is Cun Ge's cupboard, and no one can take it away because it smells like Cun Ge.
He said that in fact, everyone has a different definition of home. Design comes from life. Only by adding one's own understanding of life to it can it be a good design with warmth.
and Caitou wrote an article "There are Flowers on the Balcony". He said that because there is still beauty in life, even if you are struggling, it is still a kind of life; if you give up beauty because of struggling, then Living is just living, so every family has a balcony, and there should be a pot of flowers on every balcony.
Yes, happiness in life is actually very simple.
suddenly remembered what Li Juan said - the reason why people can feel "happiness" is not because of how comfortable life is, but because of hope.
