Like many in this world, it likely comes as no surprise that I am not entirely happy with my lot in life and want for more. More of what might be the question, but again like many, a lot of life opportunity is dictated by how much wealth one has, whether it be the best schools, healthcare or the latest gadgets - in the world as it is and will likely to continue for some time to come, pretending that "money doesn't matter" is going to end in various levels of hardship.
Knowing it does matter, isn't easy either.
For me personally, money has always weighed heavy on my mind, as since childhood, there has always be the sense and experience of a lack of it. Rarely in my life have I felt that I am able to buy what I want, even if it is not that expensive. A scarcity mindset to be sure.
I have loved the up times in crypto as while I myself haven't used my holdings, I have seen many others who have past experiences like my own, enjoy the fruits of their labor, luck, or both combined as the case often is. At the moment, there are quite a few people close to me who are in this phase and if the markets are kind and keep on their trajectory, a few will be set for life. More than a few to be sure, though I do not know them all.
There are more than than these though, as for most, it is not an all or nothing affair and there are many types of benefit on offer, many trickles of wealth seeping through the many cracks in the economy and into the hands of those building a new way. The new way is slow going though and the path isn't always clear - more of a work in progress fighting to cut through the jungle of the past, but the jungle grows back near as quick as it is cleared.
Yet, on we all go, whether it be on the side of those looking for better, or those fighting to remain the same and in between, the hedgers sitting on the fence. Can you blame them?
Life is a struggle these days and it only seems to be getting harder, with constant disruption facing all of us from every side of life. Finding a place to laugh is becoming harder, at least without a mask, both metaphorical and literal, as society continually fractures into polarizing points, all in constant competition - to go against is to betray, to comply is to betray.
There may be no way through this, no endgame that culminates in things being alright, but the game is at least changing, pivoting slowly on its axis to return a sliver of hope, by putting control back into many hands. Droplets into trickles, trickles to streams and perhaps one day, rivers and oceans will form - pools to draw upon that can serve many.
Pretty idealistic.
But if ideal, none of this would be necessary at all, as we would have found a way to live in harmony and plenty far earlier, rather than engineered and enforced scarcity and division - tools of control.
Things might not be changing at all, we might be heading into another dead end of a promise unfulfilled and the few that escape, only escape as far to join a different section of the revolution, one that keeps returning to the same place, over and over - the same tune, recycled. But, that is no way to live a life, the only purpose to accept the instrument of one's lot and play as told.
Trick or trickle, listen or speak.
Taraz
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