Vadim Vostrov: "Happiness is when you ..."

Sorry, this is about pensions again. It seems that the president “closed” the topic of pension reform with his performance, but it somehow does not close.

Let me remind you that Putin last week announced that men will now retire at 65, and women, so be it, at 60 . Then he looked directly at me through the camera and sincerely said: " Please take this with understanding ."

Right on me, this is not a figure of speech. I was born in 1972, and it was the people of my generation that all my working life made deductions to the Pension Fund, now it is not clear why. But now this is not about that.

A few years ago we had a meeting of classmates. Well, you know, when you come, you look at the gathered aunts and men and think - does I really look like that from the outside? Can't be!

As usual, at such meetings, we drank, talked, and my classmate (let's call him Tolya) joyfully says: but I retired!

It was known about Tolya that immediately after the university he began to work at the FSB (which often happens with graduates of the aerospace Academy, a former VTUZ).

I thought that since a person is already on a well -deserved rest, we must ask what he did in this respected organization, how he ensured the safety of our homeland.

He worked in the analytical department, answered Tolya, and to my question in his eyes, honestly explained: here you made plots on television, and we analyzed and wrote analytical materials for the leadership all this information.

At this moment, I realized that we, in principle, did one important thing with him, only on different sides of the front, so to speak. I wrote, and he read.

In connection with this tremendous difference, he was in a small retirement at 40, and to me and the rest of the classmates for another 20 years.

You just don’t think that I have any complaints about Tole or, God forbid, envy. He is a normal guy, far from worst in our class, and no one needs to envy at all - it is more expensive for himself. Rather, I was very surprised then.

Somehow it did not fit in my head that in 40 you can retire, and what to do there? When this is a theoretical issue, this is one thing, and when you see a single-grader pensioner in front of you, with whom you played catch-up, is completely different.

But back to the request of Vladimir Putin to treat pension reform with understanding .

On the eve of his speech in business publications, the following content appeared: “The government does not intend to increase the experience necessary for retirement to the military and security forces within the framework of pension reform.” The end of the quote.

Therefore, I was especially carefully listening to the president’s speech. He said about the villagers, about the small indigenous peoples of the North and many children. About the security forces, the former FSB director said nothing .

Then he looked at me and very sincerely and even penetratedly said "I ask you to treat this with understanding."

To be honest, I, Vladimir Vladimirovich, have not yet understood you. But the problem is not this, but in the fact that there are more and more people like me with every year in your year.

How to not recall the well -known phrase of a young teacher from “We will live until Monday”: “Happiness is when they understand you.”

In the whole form, however, this quote from Confucius looks like this: “Happiness is when they understand you, great happiness is when you are loved, real happiness is when you love.”

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