Aaargh.... these markets.
Just when I thought it was a good time to buy, it has fallen even further. I should have made some posts about buying, because then at least you guys would have known to hold on a little longer - as this seems to be my trade pattern 95 percent of the time.
(those HIVE supports didn't hold)
Many have said around then too, so hopefully the cost of the current "cost" is going to be well and truly recouped in six months or so. Though, technically that cost isn't a loss, as it was crypto to crypto. I was hoping to make a bit of a swing trade and add some more weight to the original token - but instead I added wait.
My stomach for trading (or perhaps it is my mind) has falling through the floor, much like the value of a lot of my holdings over the last few years. Yeah, there has been recovery and moments of trade glory, but most of the time, I feel like I am on the wrong side of a glory hole.
Is there a right side of a glory hole?
My "Be Bold" moves rarely work, so perhaps I should just Be Timid instead, and just keep holding whatever I have without trying to increase it, and wait for some gains - much lower as they may be. It might not be life changing amounts, but at least it could be something significant to make it all worth it. A decently paid hobby is better than a hobby that pays nothing, right?
It would be great if one hobby would be able to finance other hobbies though. Like I reckon it would be pretty awesome to be able to pay for working around my house making improvements to the garden, by writing and curating. Or of course even better, being able to have the opportunity to retire outright, and write for a living.
Writing is for living already for me.
Not for "a" living, but it is such a big part of my life process that I can't really imagine stopping it. It helps me make sense of my world, and sort through the various feelings and situations that arise - often reducing what seemed significant, into something that might be quite irrelevant in the grand scale of the context of my life.
It is a zoom out process.
And while the trend for HIVE in the short-term doesn't look great at the moment, it might not take that long to turn around if the rest of the markets get a significant kick. Bitcoin is laying less than 10% below ATH, and that means if there is a big run, its potential is to move well above that point. This will hopefully drive a lot more interest into the alt markets and perhaps eventually, people will realise that most of the tokens are unusable and instead start looking to places like Hive that offers gamification of the token in multiple ways.
The world is collapsing.
The political and economic landscape is a shambles, and people should be looking for places where there is order, trackability, and trust, without having to rely on governments full of liars, cheats, scammers, and warmongers. Many will also look to just avoid it all and bury their head further into entertainment. The benefit of crypto is, there really is something for everyone and it is possible to both get some level of trust and certainty through the technology, as well as use that same technology to bury the head a little further into entertainment, at the same time.
Maybe even make a little value along the way too.
Crypto often gets accused of being a game for fools, but just have a look at the world right now and tell me that it isn't a game, and it isn't being played by the biggest of fools. Not only are they immature and foolish, but they are also keen to be violent and controlling. They are like spoiled children, who like to hurt animals.
We are the animals.
After all these years, what is another six months to wait and see what is going to happen in the markets. Will it be life affirming, or life shattering? Will it be that moment where it all comes together and I feel vindicated? Or will I feel victimised? While I can't do much about the direction of the world, at least the choices here are mmine.
Taraz
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