I have personally witnessed five friends fall back into poverty

1. The first friend, whose family was compensated over four million yuan for demolition, bought a house with cash, but the project was left unfinished, and the demolition money was just sitting in the bank account, leaving nothing behind
2. The second friend, who opened a restaurant with a partner, each investing over one million yuan, had daily sales of less than a thousand yuan, and after deducting rent, utilities, and wages, ended up losing money all year round
3. The third friend, who, after drinking, was loyal and borrowed eighty thousand yuan from a close friend for emergencies, but the close friend’s investment failed, the company went bankrupt, and the money couldn’t be recovered; they are still involved in legal disputes
4. The fourth friend, who is righteous and cannot stand good words, gets carried away when praised, guaranteed over three million yuan for an old classmate, who ran away without money; he took on joint liability and became the scapegoat
5. The fifth friend, a teacher, who is frugal and penny-pinching, invested all his money in the stock market, and his account kept depreciating but he refused to cut losses; his family still lives in a one-bedroom apartment of less than forty square meters
These events, for you and me, are all warnings