Ok, the title is a bit misleading but not so far from the theme of my adult life.
This is my first post on Steem so please, be kind. I could never really tell my story, so I will just give a little glimps of what the heck my title implies. Life has not been easy to put it lightly. But I suppose nobody has an easy life and everything is relative. I have had to come to terms with the notion that I may not have been the victim I once thought I was... except for a victim of my very own bad choices.
Years ago I was sucked into a lifestyle I don't know if anyone could walk away from without some battle wounds, or at least a few war stories. You see, I was an escort in Las Vegas for many years, then one day picked up and started traveling... chasing a dream that was sold to me to perused me into the game...and like "chasing the dragon" as they say... I was chasing this dream that I bought years before.
I made countless amounts of money, only to find myself broke so many times. It was this cycle, UP-DOWN-UP-DOWN ect. I couldn't escape this cycle.
Ok so now I am going to leave a lifetime of some of the most amazing, and scary, and crazy, and exciting, and awful, ect.... blank so I can get back to the meaning of this posts title.
.... These days life has changed alot, in school, and staying out of trouble and trying to take care of my responsibilities to my family, and to myself. Trying to learn self love etc (yawn) I must say that life is not super exciting and then bitcoin started growing the 20000k heads of that dragon I used to chase. I had bought bitcoin for a long time. To post on Backpage and other escort sites it was the only currency you could use (later they added litecoin)
My bitcoin/litecoin purchases were indeed investments, just of a different nature. One $5-$10 dollar (usd/btc) investment brought me thousands. Of course I am talking about to post my ads. I hated buying crypto, the process was so confusing, the exchange I used that backpage directed alot of us in the industry to use was called Paxful. Knowing what I know now and looking back on it I can not believe how bad I got burnt over and over again. $30 sometimes only got me around $16 dollars worth of btc. I didnt know the diffrence, I only knew I could get my ads up and thats all that mattered.
Anywho- When the buzz about bitcoin going up from 3k earlier in the year, then 6-7k then 12k.... then by December... people became thousand and millionaires overnight. Wow. I listened to the hype, I allowed myself to again...buy a dream. (to be continued)
"The Game Is To Be Sold Not Told"-Snoop Dog