At last, after waiting for four years, the bull market phase of the cryptocurrency cycle is here. It has been torturous, yet the austerity of poverty is good for the soul. Curb your lust and greed, and all that kind of thing.
So now I should be going to the moon. My portfolio should be gaining value. Except it's doing the opposite. It's going from bad to worse. I'm actually getting poorer.
Thankfully the past four years of austerity has broken my attachment to profit or gain. I'm used to being poor now, so I don't care any more.
The shock and horror of seeing my portfolio collapse in value has built up such a degree of detachment that I'm now immune to loss.
I'm free. I've been liberated. This is so uplifting. And just in time too because the entire altcoin industry is collapsing still further into insignificance.
Just when I thought prices could not possibly go lower, they crashed and lost double digit value. Detachment of a monk is the only way to cope. Otherwise you go mad. Some commit suicide.
But not me. I trained for a decade as a monk in my twenties in the ashram of my teacher, so I'm fully prepared for this loss. I've always had a powerful stomach, and ability to eat like a horse. So I can handle the draw down, the gut wrenching crash in savings.
Thanks to my training, I can walk away from this crash site of crypto in tact. This is my anti-fragile stance. Any attachment to the outcome will only cause max pain. What a liberating feeing watching all the years of hard work, austerity and saving evaporate into nothing.
The goddess of fortune has truly blessed me. Some may aspire for wealth and pray to Lakshmi devi for money. Those are the people with limited vision. The goddess may indeed bless them.
However, if she really wants to bless you, then she does the opposite. She takes away your wealth. In that way she paves the path for you toward a far greater treasure, namely liberation or moksha.
That's if you believe in an afterlife of any sort. Theories and faiths abound about something like that. I've seen no evidence, so your guess is as good as mine.
The good thing is that I have immunity though, to the current market collapse and loss of years of accumulated value, especially here on Hive, but among all my crypto altcoin holdings.
I swapped all my bitcoin for Hive coin years ago thinking I could earn interest by staking and writing blog posts and all that, but that was the worst decision financially. I'm a fool like that.
All that Bitcoin value has crashed and burned over the years here on Hive. And all my other altcoins are similarly rekt, though Hive coin is the worst. So I'm the biggest loser, thanks to investing in Hive.
It's a good thing I don't really need money. I'm a monk. I don't need anything. Freedom is preferable for me. My health is great. The weather is awesome and mild all year long. There is no disease. I have no dependants. I'm free.
This crypto investing and attempt to earn Hive by writing is all just a side hobby to pass the time. It's all play. Any profit is just an extra. So now that I've lost most of it, that's insignificant. I'm used to eating rice and vegetables. I need little else.
The most valuable thing is peace of mind and good health. Along with the real treasure on knowledge about consciousness. Being a material lover is only painful if you're attached, or if your sense of worth it's based upon external material effort or profit.
I need none of that to feel fine. I learned that in my decade as a monk. After leaving the ashram of my teacher back then, I felt so enriched and fulfilled with wisdom, insight and meaning, that life was just fine, as fine as life on this earth planet can be at this stage in history.
I had zero money at age thirty, leaving the monastery, but I felt happy and complete. Since then I've had an easy life, like a holiday at the beach.... literally. And money came easily to me, for food and shelter because my needs to be happy were so few.
I wonder how many other people can say they are so detached, don't need much, have such an easy life despite losing most on their earnings? I'm the lucky one. Most people would love my life, can only dream of living the life I've had, my holiday life by the beach in this endless summer.
The best thing about losing all my savings by investing in Hive and altcoins, is that it has prepared me still further for death. The monastery yoga mediation ashram training for that decade gave me the perfect perspective of reality. Life is a preparation for death. We lose it all in the end anyway. Clinging will only increase suffering.
And now Hive and the altcoin collapse has driven that point home still further and strengthened my ability to laugh it off. The goddess really has blessed me by freeing me of my attachments and thus opening my path to liberation.
How are you taking your loss here on Hive?
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