A lot of people made different promises to themselves and carved different plans for the next bear market (the one we're currently in) when crypto prices peaked around October/November 2021.
I know a lot of these people who regretted not building in the bear market of 2018/19, they swore they'd give their blood and sweat when the next bear market comes.
Funny enough, I no longer hear from 80 to 90% of these people now that we're neck deep into the bear market and the window for the building opportunity that they craved so badly is now here.
Seeing profit-taking here and there, by people who already took time to build makes some, create unsustainable resolutions, one they cannot see through, especially when the going gets tough.
Crypto is everything that real life represents but the reason many will fail to see this comparison is because of the illusion of safety that we often create with our minds.
The bull market is a time when people forget about the misery and hell that the bear market brought. It's a reward for coming out tops when the temptations to succumb to huge price dips, or buy into FUD.
This is why I always advise people not to make crypto friends when it's the bull market. Why? It's similar to having friends when you become rich.
A lot of people in crypto only gave in to FUD because the friends they made in the bull market only came for the "bull gains" It's important to understand that building, or a period of accumulation is one of the toughest periods in the life of a person.
For example, an entrepreneur who is trying to build their business in real life will face competition, hard times, opportunity cost forgone, make sacrifices, extended gratification, and even face the temptation to close the business when things get tough and the numbers are not coming in.
Having friends that you're collectively building with during tough times, is better than building new friends when the "gains" of the bull market is ripe.
Crypto season is a phase, and this is because there's no "happily ever after", The season of bear is inevitable, and this is why you need tough people: People who understand the bear market, who can give you the motivation to hold when inexplicable dips rampage the market, when bad players ruin the market, and you begin to panic from the level of FUD that the Crypto space can create.
When the going gets tough, this is when people with the lambo dreams completely disappear.
I was opportune to meet some of the people in 2021, they were building mad dreams, from being drunk from the bull market's kamikaze.
These were the people who wanted to buy BTC at 70k in 2021 and hoped they could sell it a month later at 200k and Hive at 3$ while hoping to sell at $6 a week later. It's crazy to be around people like this.
I had a fair share of them that I had to cut off because they were unrealistic in their ambitions, and the bear market has eventually proven that they're jokers.
Crypto is for tough people, and the reason why we see a lot of the opposite is that people are attracted to "unbelievable money" I know people who talked about how crypto paid them their five-year salary in just one week.
The prospect of life-changing money makes people unprepared for the doom of the bear market
When people begin to establish a balance between the bull and bear market and create ways to maximize the former to mitigate the latter, this is when they'd begin to truly understand Crypto.
No doubt, its bleeding-edge technology is still futuristic. Some of the gains we're currently seeing will be nothing compared to the futuristic possibilities, but paying the price of time is always difficult, and most people would rather not.
At the end of the day, if you're currently holding on neck-deep and trying to take advantage to build and stay solidly strong, stay away from bull market friendships, The crypto alliances you form during the bear market, should be the ones you should build and sustain, when the season of abundance comes.
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