I must admit that I have not felt very inspired, as of late.
Usually, I feel pretty good in spring; the days are getting longer, the sun is out more often and it seems like "good things could happen."
This year, somehow, I have felt more like just crawling into a hole and hibernating.
Of course, that's not really an option...
Which brings me to thoughts about "what it takes," in life. Could be with regards to anything from building your stake on Hive to making sure you have a good nest egg to live on, when you retire. It could even be training for a marathon.
What do we have to do to make it? Moreover, how do we deal with the pervasive feeling that we're actually swimming backwards — rather than forwards — so much of the time?
As someone who possesses no particular "genius" at anything in particular, I have always had to rely on things other than skill and talent.
Which leaves the alternative of simply showing up every day.
Do YOU show up for your life, every day?
That is what I have been struggling with, this spring... even though I know what I have to get done, finding the will to do even a little bit every day is turning out to feel like an almost insurmountable task!
Not complaining, mind you... I'm well aware that inspiration is something that ebbs and flows.
In the crypto world, people often talk about the preoccupation with "number go up."
Maybe the number does go up, and maybe it doesn't. What I find more disconcerting is the pervasive trend that the number may well be constantly going up... but the value of the entire proposition slowly drifts down, month after month, year after year.
"Maybe you're just involved in the wrong things!"
It's sometimes impossible to get upstream...
Maybe I am, but there's also a sense of principle; an underlying idea of what I had hoped to accomplish, to consider. And one thing is for 100% sure, in that sense:
I did not get involved in crypto in order to chase around meaningless memecoins in search of some "big win" and constant trading on razor thin margins. I can do that with day trading high risk legacy stocks... and at least the security there is backed by some kind of actual company with cash and assets. In the Cryptosphere, it's just ever so much "vaporware."
One of the appeals of Hive was actually that there's something here.
There's an actual community, and developers developing things, and people actually using those things. And yet, there never really seems to be "liftoff" here...
On deeper consideration, is that merely a a reflection of the human condition? Somehow, "functional utility" is not nearly as sexy as "a stroke of luck?" Is that what we're facing?
Naturally, I will keep plugging forward... perhaps fueled by little more than hopium... in expectation that maybe someday it'll all hit "critical mass" and gain some real momentum.
It's at least better to have tried and failed, than to just have sat idly by and wished something better would happen.
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