The picture above is of my wife when we were on honeymoon in Milan. We actually didn't do much shopping while there because we were on a budget. We have almost always been on a budget which is most of the reason why we didn't have a wedding and chose to elope instead. Not that we would have had a big wedding anyway but it would have been nice to have friends present instead of public servants.
She has a pair of shoes in the bag. I know, typical right? She has a size 34 foot, if she finds shoes that fit, she must but them. In Finland they don't make her size at all. Not for adults anyway.
They don't make her size clothing either but, they used to. She hasn't changed size but the clothing has. Once upon a time she could buy some xs clothes but now an xs is an old small. People are getting larger so they are relabelling a small an xs, large a small and XL a large, all to save people's egos. Perhaps if they labelled them correctly people would recognise they are getting larger earlier as shopping for clothes gets uncomfortable. Not many people want to move up a size.
This is a meeting trick designed to sell clothes off course as they will sell less if people feel bad buying. The feedback loop to purchase unnecessary owns should be positive and most of it is unnecessary. How much clothing is needed, how many pairs of shoes?
Having said that, it is minus 25 Celsius now and I don't own winter boots. Perhaps I should in Finland... Maybe when Steem goes to 10 dollars. At 20 I might take my wife on a holiday to dine place warm.
I can't really think that far ahead though, right now it is head down and tail up to work to get back to a zero point. Yesterday I paid most of the bills and business tax I owe and it was very, very painful. But, I am getting there slowly and it is crypto non-reliant. As I have said, crypto is our future, not my present so work has to be done now.
I am confident it will be okay though, I am bullish on our future and although she doesn't really believe, I know that one day the work I do now will be appreciated by my wife. At moment she thinks I am insane. I take people thinking me crazy as a good sign though as the average person is the average for a reason and most of it comes down to their thinking patterns as they tend not to believe some things are possible, even while they witness others do them.
I don't of course know if it will actually work out or if the bulls will come and drive prices to the moon but, I am confident and give it decent odds of happening. I just have to hold out long enough. Just have to make ends meet for enough time so that the industry can mature and expand.
It won't be long but what people don't yet realise is, the ceiling is astronomically high. A trillion dollars like near where it was a year ago is nothing compared to where it could be in a few years from now. When the institutional investors arrive to stay, the space is going to not only astronomically rise in value, it is going to have a mass of new products and services develop to leverage the industry she the new wealth created.
There is so much opportunity to arrive, so few really seem to understand the volumes. Humans aren't good with large numbers, compounded interests or, future values. The numbers are big, the potential enormous. Those who can hold out as early adopters are going to be fine.
Those who can hold out. Just like the perceptions of vanity sizing obscure reality, our poor perception of the future and the value it holds makes the fear we are wrong that much worse. Fear shakes us, it loosens our grip on reality, and the value we hold. They spread FUD for a reason, don't but into it.
Goodnight.
Taraz
[ a Steem original ]
(posted from phone)