One of my acquaintances buys cheap and small apartments on credit in different parts of the city, repairs them, and rents them out. He called that day, he says.
– I have a 1-room small apartment, an old man who lives alone has been staying there for 3 years. In the first year, the house rent was paid typically, then it started to be late, in the last year, I spent the rent for two months, but two more months of debt have accumulated, but mine is also with a loan, you know, that day I warned that it would be released at the end of October.
I was in a little hurry, I had to go to a meeting, and I interrupted my acquaintance. “Okay, but why did you call me?” Says a. – To be honest, one day he said in a speech that “my friend’s son has achieved good success, I saw him on TV, I will ask him for a small loan and I will give you your debt” and he gave your name, he added one more thing, can he please you? I know, but I didn’t say it… I stopped talking.
And I thought that was a small problem
Send me the address, let’s meet at the house in the evening. He was my father’s friend, and he had grown up a lot, I brought him to the place with difficulty, he was a rare, if not the only, person who met me after my father’s death, although his condition was not a problem, he told me to contact him when I needed help and one of these days I really applied one day, he gave me $300, one day I wanted to return $100, he got upset, he didn’t take it, then he left Armenia and lost contact…
We went out with my acquaintance, I told the story, and I said: — I will pay the old man’s fee. Says a. – Okay, you paid that $300, the rent for 2 months is 400, but that 100 is nothing. The debt is gone, but there will be another problem in one or the next month… I cut off the conversation very quickly. “You don’t understand, my brother. I will pay for all the months of the old man’s stay, don’t turn to him.” My friend was surprised, he says. – But he only gave $300… I explained. — If you give me even a million now, one percent of that 300 is not worth it, my situation will neither improve nor change from that million and that $300 has solved the problem of bread for my family for months… I wish everyone a weekend full of kindness.