A friend of mine once met a girl. After wooing her for a while, he decided he had met the right one and decided to get married. When he brought her to meet his parents, they didn’t approve of his son’s choice, as she seemed too skinny to them.
However, he fell head over heels in love with this girl, so to avoid conflicts, living together with his parents was out of the question. The young people rented a place and began to live with parties and get-togethers. At that time they had a baby girl. Understandably, it was hard for the young parents, but they somehow coped. The young man did not ask his parents for money, and his wife’s relatives had little to contribute.
The young man had to survive, so he went to work for one of his friends at a corporate enterprise. He had to please and flatter his superiors.
Then he got a job as a deputy chief and held on to it with his teeth and hands. He grabbed at everything the bosses gave him to do, and then he began to “paddle only under himself” and forgot what friendship meant.
As soon as any novelty appeared in their town, he immediately grabbed it, and then flaunted it. At that time the privatization of real estate had not yet begun, and his wife married a man who, during the divorce, gave her a one-room apartment.
After that they got back together. But now they had their own place. This guy was always a few steps ahead of everyone else. He was also the first to decide to move to Kaliningrad with his boss, who was planning to open a new business there.
A lot has passed since those days, a lot has changed. At the time, everything was changing on an hourly basis. Over the years, many people managed to go up and go bankrupt more than once, and then start their business again from scratch. They came and went, changed cars, jobs, and housing.
But my friend spent his whole life hovering around his boss, unable to even turn his head without his permission. And now it’s pathetic to even look at him!
He and his wife raised a daughter, who then left them, just as they had left their parents. And his “thin” wife, like a servant girl, continues to serve her husband’s uninteresting life.
