Lately, it feels like most of the projects I have been working on are progressing at a virtually glacial pace.
I know that what I am doing is taking me in the right direction, but there is almost no tangible progress, making it feel more like I am standing still — or even going backwards — than it feels like actual progress.
I also recognize that this is the point at which a lot of people decide to throw in the towel and give up, because we tend to be impatient and impetuous — we expect results now!
I expect some of that is related to this world we live in. Everything seems to be moving faster and faster, and so many aspects of our daily lives are expected to pass by so much faster than they once did.
Even so, we still are subject to the eternal movements of our environment. It sometimes feels like the world has completely lost sight of that.
What I mean by that is that — no matter HOW much we keep "shortening" time — we still live on a planet that takes about 365 days to make a circuit around the sun, and where our seasons fall has not changed. A day still has 24 hours in it, and each hour has 60 minutes.
And no matter our expectations — and growing impatience — you can't get around the fact that you plant the fields in spring, and harvest in fall.
I'm using this as a rather obvious metaphor to illustrate the eternal relevance of patience, and for the fact that no matter what society might be trying to teach us — or is it manipulate us? — about how fast we can expect things to happen, we are still bound by certain natural cycles... and ignoring those are likely to make the path towards our goals more frustrating, as well as more prone to failure.
One of the problems with excessive "clockwatching" is that we increase the likelihood that we will set unrealistic expectations, fall short of those expectations, and then throwing in the town on perfectly viable projects (or investments) because they "weren't moving fast enough" for our liking.
Look no further than right here in the Cryptosphere, where people expect to make huge returns on their investments... in the matter of a very short time.
From what I have observed, it seems like there are people getting into crypto who are actually disappointed if they don't double their money in a month. But how can that possibly be realistic?
The comeback I often get is that I "don't understand" how crypto works. Even if that were the case, I do understand how simple economics work: If everyone suddenly has twice as much, then everthing will be relatively just as it was before. There is no advantage if everyone gets the same thing. And if you could just easily double your money in a month, don't you think everyone would be doing it?
But hey, I'm not an economist, and I don't play one on TV, either!
Anyway, I'm just going to be patient with my little investment — and other — projects, finding my way via outlasting, rather than outsmarting.
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The best "investments" I've made in crypto has actually been the awesome relationships I've made. Folks like @cherokee4life and several folks on his discord.
While my account here on hive has def grown in value little by little(just broke 200 hp heck yeah) and I enjoy the investment I've made in splinterlands(meaning I enjoy winning :P) none of it is stuff I expect to ever really pay out like an investment.
Well, yes, I have certainly met some interesting people through the Cryptosphere.
Because I don't have much to invest in the first place, the way I look at this is a bit like throwing your loose change in a jar on your dresser: It's not much but over time it might buy a nice dinner, or even a plane ticket.
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The bulk of what I've invested in crypto is either from stuff I've put in(like earning from art) or play2earn games and from websites like freecash which allow you to earn by playing games/doing serveys and cash out in crypto.