Time flies when you're having fun
And, it doesn't, when you're not.
And of course, time is relative to age - so 1 year for a 5 year old is 20% of a lifetime, but for a 40 year old, it is 2.5% - that makes it a very long time for the young, a very short time for the older.
Notice that I said "older" and not old
40 is the new 20.
If 20 is wrinkled, disillusioned and bitter.
I was discussing with a client today about time relativity to experience and how a bad couple years for an adult, is a bad half a lifetime for a child. With the lower threshold for what is "bad" these days - it is no wonder so many kids are struggling, since for them, so much of their life experience is negative.
And I say "low threshold" for bad, because for example, my clients parents spent from the age of seven to thirteen, in a warzone and the following years, in post-war struggle. What kind of impact on personality, resilience, skillsets and a million other things, does that kind of childhood have on the average experiencer? What does having a drunk parent, or being locked-down for months on end, growing up in abject poverty or in a violence-filled community have on a child?
But, I think this "time stretch" has an effect on how much pain people experience from the markets and since crypto hype is driven by the relatively young, the dips seem to last an eternity. And, because often the young don't necessarily have a huge amount to "buy the fucking dip" with, the dips aren't as much an opportunity to increase the stack with supplemental fiat, as it is a personal loss from the crypto highs.
Opportunity is motivating - Loss is painful
Seeing those dollars bleed out into next to nothing can be painful, especially for those who are into the hype tokens, which many of the young chase. It is all fantastic when Doge is at ATHs - but buying at the ATH, how are they feeling? Those who bought into BTC and ETH, yes, they are down too - but they aren't necessarily looking to sell any time soon - they are looking to hold well into the future.
And I think that this is part of the reason that some people experience so much pain in the downs, because they evaluate their worth in dollars, not crypto. The market value plummets 50% - the crypto held can be identical. As long as not looking to sell for anything priced in dollars, all is fine. Of course, not much can be bought with crypto directly, where people are happy keeping that in crypto form, because not much of the goods and services for daily living, are in the crypto economy directly.
One day
But, those who are not having fun in the current conditions should be questioning, why they aren't having fun and working out personal strategies to improve their mindset and position to improve their experience. Markets do what markets do, tying feelings to tightly to them and then blaming them for ruining your experience is going to lead to all kinds of personal issues and you know what - no one cares how you feel about it.
You are not a victim
You are here by choice. You invested by choice. No one forced you to buy, sell, hold, post, vote, downvote, create quality content, submit shit, plagiarize, steal, repost, powerup, stake, play, pool....
All of these decisions are yours.
So take responsibility for them and rather than lamenting about past behavior, missed opportunities or what others are doing - start recognizing that you have the keys to what you do in any given moment. You are not a robot under control - stop acting like one.
Change time.
Taraz
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