I've been looking at the crypto market lately, people are smiling and hoping for the future. The ones who have stuck in there through thick and thin are beginning to show some excitement but was not the same sentiment 12 months ago. One year ago, it was difficult to convince the regular pleb that Bitcoin wasn't dead or it was going to die an eventual death. There was this feeling of hopelessness, and people were beginning to think of options outside crypto.
The ones who managed to sell their bag were happy they got out of the hellscape and a system that was once thriving was ready to be abandoned by people who once pride themselves as Crypto faithful.
It's the way life is.
Humans are purely sentimental and sometimes the course of history does not determine present reaction.
It's not just in crypto.
People generally want to abandon what they deem to be a lost cause, especially because the price to pay to nurture anything that's dwindling is often too expensive. A lot of people do not want to pay the price, because uncertainty makes their mental health unsteady. In life, people abandon what they deem to be unproductive, it doesn't matter to them if there's a futuristic chance of betterment. Time can be a painful period of waiting.
Crypto is not alien-tech it was created by a human being and because of this, it'll always reflect human phenomenon. People want to buy the top and sell the dip when it should be the other way around, but because of fear, uncertainty, greed, and impatience, they will most certainly do it the wrong way. The wrong way can seem right sometimes. The fear of consequences makes us forget futuristic advantages or gains, especially because there's always a little price to pay.
A lot of people do not want to pay a price, and for various salient reasons that might just be unsavory when thoroughly checked.
This is how life exactly works.
People want to join the moving bandwagon, forgetting that everything that maintains a positive stride can experience an unwarranted downtime. Nobody wants to ride the tide when the boat is at rest. Prospect is benign and sometimes even when people see prospects, they're still not sure unless they can lay their hands on certainty. We know this might be bad. There are a lot of these things we know, but we're never disciplined enough because fear makes it difficult. The crypto market is on the rise, and a lot of people have already missed out.
Why?
The decisions they made 12 months ago are the reason why. "Now I'm not saying Crypto is infallible, far from it.* There's a tiny chance that the SEC and Gary Gensler might have succeeded against Binance and CZ and set the whole market 10 years back. There was always that possibility, even if it was unlikely. This is to show that everything that is unlikely can still be possible even with the smallest of chances. Life is a ball of uncertainty. Sometimes you're not stipulated to be lucky, but you get extremely lucky.
Sometimes you have a 99% chance of being lucky, but you ended up being unlucky anyway, because of the 1% chance that was visible.
It's antithetical, but It's life.
I remember 2 years ago, I felt like I was at the peak of everything. Life was smooth, I had almost everything I wanted. Friends were there, from every corner. Everyone wanted to be affiliated and share business, bonds, and connections, but over two years, it's exactly the opposite. The people are gone, the losses I've experienced have been devasting and irreplaceable, and nothing seems to work anymore. I've lost the most important people in my life and this reality has set me back in many places. That's it.
No one wants to be on a sinking ship especially because no one can tell the future. The future isn't certain, so people want to primarily hold on to what currently works and does well. I've been looking at BTC's gallivanting, and it's a testament that anything can rise, even from the ashes where it's presumed to be completely dead. I'm looking at my life once again, it looks mortifying, to say the least, but I'm holding on to this phenomenon, even if I don't know what tomorrow holds.
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