"Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind."
— Marcel Proust —
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It's no news that people handle grief differently, it's a normal thing that accompanies a loss of any kind. The grief comes from the realization that it has become impossible to get back exactly what was lost, and what's worse, not knowing how to continue from that loss.
In 2019 I lost something that I'm still trying to recover from till date, (I'm not really good at handling losses). It was the very first time I was going to do something for myself and by myself as a young adult.
With an idea I got from a single video I watched about information marketing, I decided I was going to try it out by my self. At the same time I came to hear about trading through binary options and as a young adult, I planned I was going to use the money I got to start trading and guess what, it worked.
I made my first $1,000 within 30 days of selling informations. It was majorly information about courses and new products I was selling, and I went all in on it with great success.
And then I decided I was going to trade with the whole $900 through a strategy I bought for $100 (stupid me right 😄😄) I guess I need not explain further what happened to the money... I went into depression automatically, I never learned anything about business or how to handle these losses, no tutor or coach (seems like I'm giving excuses here right, but it is what it is.) Losing everything in one day made me lose myself and the courage to continue.
I tried so hard to market informations after that time, but it wasn't just working for reasons I couldn't tell. I tried talking to my mum about it (she was the only adult I had to talk to) but she didn't seem to understand or care. So I told myself everything is fine and I was going to do better, but I don't think I have ever done better than I did then because of the phobia from that loss. I'm still working on it, because I need to get passed it, and I started by taking it one step at a time. I always remember it, not like it's easy to forget, but each time I do, I remember it with a lesson I try to impute into my daily life.
I don't know if that's the best way to deal with it, but it's the way I've been dealing with mine. I know others have lost way more than that, and are still succeeding, that's were I draw my strength to continue.
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