How did you spend the most difficult period of your life?

For me, the hardest period of my life should be about ten years from graduation to work to basically paying off my family debts.

It stands to reason that family conditions should gradually improve after graduation and work, so why are there economic difficulties at this time?

Here's the situation:

For a long time, our family's economic situation has been bad. All four brothers are studying and need to spend money. Therefore, it is difficult for parents to solve the family's "huge expenses" through hard work all the year round, and it is inevitable to ask relatives and friends to solve their urgent needs. After a long time, I owe a lot of debts. Even when our brothers went to college, they borrowed money from the bank.

When my brother and I joined the work, our two younger brothers had not graduated. My brother and I divide our salary into two parts, and we keep a small part for our living expenses and the other part for our parents to solve the tuition problem of our two brothers.

At that time, we were all of marriageable age and needed a lot of money to solve our personal problems. Parents can't talk, and they can't talk themselves. What if the salary is not high? So, I had to find a unit to find a way. At that time, the colleague in charge of finance was very kind, considerate of my family's situation and difficulties, and readily agreed to borrow money every time. Over the past few years, due to engagement, marriage, giving birth to a daughter, turning over the house at home and other things, I have borrowed a lot of money in the unit one after another, and the highest loan reached more than 9000 yuan.

In those days, on the one hand, I had to maintain a basic life, on the other hand, I had to save some money from my meager income to pay off my family debts and work loans. It can be said that it is even more difficult.

Fortunately, the salary increased year by year, and two younger brothers also graduated from college and took part in the work. Their income increased relatively, their expenses decreased relatively, their loans decreased gradually, and finally they were paid off. The feeling at that time was that borrowing was like a mountain, and our brothers were like fools digging mountains. Finally, with tenacious spirit, they moved the mountain.

Now, my brother, my two younger brothers and I have bought a house in the city, and we still have some savings. Although we are not allowed to have money, we can still be considered well-off. Whenever I think back to the difficult situation at that time, I feel a little sad.

Because of the experience of that year, my brother and I especially cherish our present life, and also cherish the friendship forged by the two brothers in the face of difficulties. Therefore, we named the WeChat group built by four brothers as "the same root brothers" and the WeChat group built by one family as "Home and Everything".