Hell, in these past few days of me not writing any posts is the perfect example. I thought it would be no problem to write a post while I was on the road. I often make this mistake.
In a way it's like gambling. Sometimes I can write posts when I'm away from home. Sometimes it is seemingly impossible or simple impractical. I remember the times that it worked out like, "Yeah, there's no reason this time won't be like that time. Easy." Then the time ticks away and all of a sudden it's four days later. Yikes, wtf happened?
Funny how something as simple as being "on vacation" can actually be so draining. I spent most of my weekend playing video games with an 8-year-old hyperactive tyrant. Super Mario 3D World on Nintendo Switch. The more things change the more they stay the same. Who'd of though that franchise would be around longer than the kids that originally started playing it? Crazy stuff. I guess some ideas are immortal after all.
I still very much look forward to all this intellectual property being ripped away from the corporations that own them. Nintendo doesn't own Mario. Lucas Arts / Disney don't own Star Wars. MCU doesn't own the Avengers. These things belong directly to the people, but communities have never had the technology required to claim these things for themselves until now. Oh my, I can't even imagine the babyrage when these corporations realize they'll never own another piece of intellectual property ever again. The new paradigm is one that is quite hard to fathom after being swept away in the old one for so long.
So many people make so many plans that never come to fruition. At the end of the day most people do not have access to the support networks that they need in order to survive. It's amazing how much we all suffer because of these facts, and then try to blame the victims (which often includes ourselves). If only we had "picked ourselves up by our bootstraps".
Of course in many ways that is a completely ridiculous line of thinking. In a world of billions of humans running around, no one gets anything done on their own. You wouldn't even know how to do basic arithmetic or even speak if you hadn't of been taught how to do these things by someone else.
Can you imagine telling a 4 year old to "pick themselves up by their bootstraps"? Can you imagine expecting someone to reinvent all of the things we've already invented and use on a daily basis? Not only that, but also to expect them to do all these things instantly without actually having to put the work in to accomplish them?
It is downright foolish to think that every person you've ever met has the tools to succeed right in front of them, and that they just have to "work hard" to achieve their goals. Seriously that is just borderline enraging.
This becomes even more convoluted when we realize that every person requires a different level of support. Every person requires different tools to succeed. Yet again, we have some people running around wrongfully assuming that anyone with access to their toolkit and support system has everything they need to succeed in life. Like, no. Get some perspective. That's not how this works.
Take me for example. There are some things I do very well; better than most people, and I get a lot of praise and people asked me how I accomplished such things. And you know what? I don't have a good answer for that question. "Just lucky I guess." Right place right time right level of tenacity and drive. Of course I can over/under exaggerate any of these variables to build my own narrative.
Do I want to make it look like anyone can accomplish what I have accomplished? Downplay the luck and upsell the consistency. Do I want to make it look like I'm special and perhaps even just have better genetics? My "raw talent" is what got me here in that case. Do I want to focus on gratitude and perhaps make someone else feel better who's worked just as hard but hasn't had the same success rate? Ah, well, I just got lucky is all.
I've existed for decades as someone who has a lot of unrealized potential. I still consider that to be extremely accurate. All the potential in the world, hardly any of it actually realized, and very little indication when or if it ever will be. Perhaps when I look out onto the world this is the energy I'm projecting. The entire Earth is 99% wasted potential. I see the world as a place where plans are made but then most of these dreams go to die as the slow realization of reality hits us like a ton of bricks. Certainly, this is a cynical take, but it also has a lot of truth to it. The millennial generation has a lot of underlying cynicism built in it seems.
Perhaps that's because the world should be so much better than it is, but it just isn't, for reasons that don't make a whole lot of sense, or just stem from pure incompetence/greed. This is why we can't have nice things. People need more support, but all those resources get sucked into a blackhole of nothingness where community should be.
These younger kids coming onto the scene are surprisingly upbeat considering the estate they've inherited. Is that naivety and blind faith that things will somehow get better? Or are we forcing the younger generation to "evolve or die" and they are making the obvious choice? Considering where I see this all going with crypto, I must assume that the entire planet is on the verge of a massive overhaul in every direction.
I've got some people in Discord asking (begging) me to make a price prediction. They want me to say the market will tank so that they can rest assured knowing it will do the exact opposite of what I'm feeling at the moment. Ah well, that's the thing about feelings eh? They can't be forced. The oracle will not be coerced into having a vision. That's not how this works.
What I can say is that it doesn't matter. Doesn't matter what the price is today or tomorrow or the next day. What matters is if this movement is still alive in ten years. If it is, everyone wins, and if it's not, something horrible happened and I'd rather not even think about that timeline. Sounds like a dead end to me.
Whelp, I'm pretty tired. Guess that's to be expected after 5 hours of driving. In any case, I'm glad I was able to write this today and hit the ground running when I got back even if I took a little break over the weekend.
Not interesting in sprinting or speculating at the moment. I've always been more interested in the long-game, even if that strategy isn't as exciting as going 10x in a few hours. All I can say is that we'll never get rich unless our mindset shifts from instant gratification to long-term satisfaction and sustainability. Get rich slowly, or not at all. This seems to be the ultimate theme of finance itself, despite what the few lottery winners might say.
