It's been a crazy month!
So on top of dealing with my new baby (not so new anymore! He's over 5 months old already!!! Wow!), I've been dealing with moving house which has been an absolute nightmare in Los Angeles during a pandemic.
I am one of the people who are going out of my way to conform to every possible precaution to not get the virus, especially being that there are potentially high risk people living under my roof. The downside to this meant that I essentially had to move the contents of my house completely on my own without any outside help. The hardest part was getting several desks and couches up a narrow flight of stairs, but somehow I pulled it off! Sometimes being a fairly large, strong dude comes in useful.
The only exception we made was hiring a team to move the grand piano. I was not going to attempt that on my own. This post probably would have been drawn up from a bed! (If I had even survived)
In other news, little Ricky has discovered that he can scream like a banshee. I think that God is punishing me for all of my past transgressions with this little one. He cries almost continuously when not being thoroughly entertained. I have my fingers crossed that it is because he is intelligent and dealing with intellectual frustration. At least that's what I keep telling myself!
On the upside, now that we're getting settled in I am really loving the new place. We moved from an apartment downtown into a house in a nicer neighborhood. Out of the smog! Movin' on up I suppose. I am incredibly happier here than where I was at. There was always some kind of ghetto shit happening in our old neighborhood. I didn't even know the neighbors on either side of me after living there for 3 years. I've already met both neighbors in the couple of weeks since we moved in here! It's night and day.
I hadn't been paying much attention to crypto during this last month, but of course I did see that BTC had taken off! Naturally I was excited to check out how amazing my Hive must be doing. To my horror, I see that we've dropped all the way to 161st place on CMC, and continue to lose value every single day. I tell you what though, those of use who keep HODLing have balls of steel. Even Steem is doing better. I was sure it would be near zero by now.
I suppose we can just continue to hope and dream that one day some heavy investors will see something in this project and bring us back into the top 50 where we belong. As of now, it would seem that my continued investment in hive could be considered an Escalation of Commitment logical fallacy. However, if someday the Hive price were to recover (and sustain that recovery) I would be able to gloat about how right I was in the long run. I guess we shall see, because my brain is absolultely frozen and unable to to fathom selling my coins after this insanely slow freefall where I continue to buy more and more regardless of the horrific losses.
But the truth of the matter is, life is all about learning to deal with loss. That is, how do we get back up again and keep trying. How do we recover? Life is constant ups and downs. Are we resilient? Sometimes I don't feel like it. In the end, I look at this little child of mine and think about how things had to happen exactly as they did in order for me to have him. Like many, I have suffered numerous setbacks in my life - but as long as I still breathe, there is always still yet another chance to get to be the one who comes out on top.