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1831 sats \ 20 comments \ @bookguy 18 Feb 2023 bitcoin

Not sure what happened. Everything seemed ok. Suddenly, confined with my dear wife and no room to breath. It was not easy. Communication fractured. Anxiety. Alcohol. Therapy.

2022 seemed like the year everything was going to turn around. Life seemed great as we blasted off and embraced all that was missed over the past couple years. It truly felt we would reach the moon, maybe further. I was topped off with joy for a future that I confused with a rose tinted dream. A glimpse into a different timeline. Sometime better. Maybe it still exists somewhere out there.

I wake up alone these days. My phone rarely provides me with buzzes of reassurance that indicate one's connection to a social group. Have I been ostracized? Or, is this an act of self-immolation? I've always been a loner. I wrote that I've never felt more alone than I do now. I'm becoming withdrawn. The separation has crippled me financially; although, I'm elated that I did not sell any of my dear Bitcoin. So here I sit, two months sober, alone. Still stacking as many sats as I can with hope for a better tomorrow.

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33 sats \ 0 replies \ @TomK 18 Feb 2023

Fight on, friend! I made the experience of financial crippling myself twice (last time my father died, got divorced too, all within weeks). And then there was the decisive moment: I saw it clear as the sun: life pushes You in waves and You reached literally the ground of Your ocean. That's the moment of Your great comeback. At this point things can only get better!

Enjoy Your climbing out of Your hell, go out meet friends, find new people that fit to You better than the ones You lost on Your way.

Read ancient philosophers,Nietzsche, do sports, walking, out into nature... try Your own business (sell chinese plastic online)... Establish nice routines every day to give Your life a constitution....

You will do it!

Greets from Málaga to You whereever You are. We are all connected here...

20 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bebop 18 Feb 2023

You got this king! Hard works pays off eventually even tho it may not seem like it at first.

20 sats \ 0 replies \ @TheBTCManual 18 Feb 2023

The fiat against fiat was never going to be easy for those that decided to take it on, but I still think its worth it, I've been rekt by my own stupidity early on but I keep stacking I know its worth it.

Hard times are here for some and coming for others, no way around that, we all have to build savings and support one another, they parasites are not thinking of us or going to give us a free ride we need to rip it from them and protect the life we want for ourselves

We're going to win, we've got the better tools, better people and we're not going anywhere

30 sats \ 0 replies \ @Zazon 18 Feb 2023

Two month sober , stacking sats, that's it man. You'll feel with time the benefits of having low dopamine levels. Go outside and breath, have some hooker from time to time!

20 sats \ 0 replies \ @gandlaf21 18 Feb 2023

You got this, stay strong brother!

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @IanMalcolmPhd 19 Mar 2023

Everyone has this journey in their life where the goal usually ends up being simplicity and less, not more. Example: Lao Tzu leaving the city to live alone in the mountains. "In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present. ” Lao Tzu

I'm going to build a nonreligious healing monastery and retreat/health spa for men in either Columbia or El Salvador. Why? Because I looked for this in my area and it didn't exist. The future is male. Bitcoin is male. Women have it too, but we have more masculinity.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @bookguy OP 19 Mar 2023

Thank you for sharing. I have an interest in Chinese philosophy and will check out Lao Tzu.

In the martial art I practice, we have the principles of simplicity, efficiency, and directness in achieving ones goals. In fighting this goal is, of course, to hit. But, I've been practicing using these principles in communication and discission making. They don't always translate 1 to 1, but I enjoy the the challenges of adjusting to achieve the goal at hand. From your quote, I appreciate the ideas of simplifying your thinking and in conflict to be fair and generous.

Regarding governing and control, there is another principle from our art of letting go when under pressure. The more you fight an opposing force and try to control the more control you actually lose. I believe we can draw a relationship from governance of life and others, to governance of one's own body and mind, within this concept of letting go of control. For me, this can be challenging, as I have an over-controlled personality. I have to remember letting go of control does not necessarily mean giving up.

I love your idea of building a retreat for men. I hope you are able to achieve this in the future.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @l0k18 19 Feb 2023

I'm stll in the tunnel and darkness and almost all vestiges of normality pretty much got left behind on the ground in australia... 10 years ago. And I still have vivid recollections of the nearly 10 years I was still really cut up about the woman who would have been my wife if I hadn't stumbled into the freewheeling psychedelic nonsense...

The small light for me is that my enduring wishes to help set the world to rights still burns, and right now is the only source of energy, I don't even leave myself hardly an inch to indulge myself.

I think the lesson I'm resisting to learn is to not be constantly in a rigid state of anticipation of the next misery. Times that should merely have been dull have been torturous, for years...

Part of the problem for me is that my inner world is so far divorced from "normal" reality all I do half my day is think about how messed up it is to literally trust people under bright lights and cameras whose sole job is to persuade people who probably will see no effect from what they support so gullibly.

My happiest moments in this decade since I arrived here in europe were mostly when I had literally no money, had to scrape for food, and spent all day walking around just watching the strange places around me and weather and culture I never saw before.

It is really hard to not GAF but I'm here to tell you: you can definitely give too many.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @IanMalcolmPhd 18 Feb 2023

Sending you love, stacking brother.

Porn is my problem.

Happiness comes from within (in eastern thought) and ultimately from God (christian thought).

When you're happy and enjoying your life, even on your own, others will naturally be drawn to you. When you remove and compartmentalize the negative people in your life, you make room for better people to enter your life.

1 sat \ 0 replies \ @Busybe3z 18 Feb 2023

Reading this I can relate my guy I suppose there’s being lonely and being alone, not telling you which to choose or which is better. Hang in there and don’t lament! I heard about bitcoin in 2009 and didn’t invest… “I could have, should have” only get you down, so I took the plunge and invested last year! No one I know thinks it’s a good option… don’t let it tear you away from family and friends! Educate and be the pioneer! God helps me in my worst and I thank him for my best! You got this

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @sancristrader 19 Feb 2023

Do a lot of sports if you can. Depression is basically mechanical, in the sense that you can change your mood by secreting certain hormones. Then do something productive, or just take a break for a year and go to some cheap country to live for 7k per year.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @richnost 19 Feb 2023

Hey man. I don't have a life hack for you; just sympathy. I think you are taking the right path getting your head straight. Right now, I don't think it's healthy or important to think about bitcoin in terms of hype cycles. Hinging your hopes on your decisions ultimately being justified is bad juju. Sure, DCA, stack sats, whatever; just do it responsibly. Treat yourself like someone who deserves dignity.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Coinosphere 18 Feb 2023

Stacking sats is a way of preserving your future. Stacking companionship is nothing like stacking sats; it's not a form of preservation; it's more like a single luxury item that we really really want. There are always more fish in the sea and the bigger your sat stack the more of them that will be attracted to your success.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @snakedye 18 Feb 2023

Go to the gym or start doing a combat sports. You'll meet new people and improve yourself.

Fuck Bitcoin tbh. It's completely useless if you alone and miserable.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @monk_cactus 18 Feb 2023

That sounds really tough man, I'm sorry to read this.

Feeling alone is painful. You'll find a way back though.

When you're physically sick (stomach flu or something nasty), you almost forget what it was like to be healthy. And when you're healthy, it's hard to imagine how shitty it was when you were sick.

I've found that it goes the same way with loneliness, anxiety, whatever the affliction. That better tomorrow is on its way

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @jsonbits 18 Feb 2023

Lift something heavy and stack. Things will slowly improve from there. Source: been there.

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @sudonaka 18 Feb 2023

life sucks then you die =)

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @bookguy OP 18 Feb 2023

Best believe I’m taking my stack with me lol

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @TheBTCManual 18 Feb 2023

Lol you worked for it, you take it wherever you go! Thats the beauty of it

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @01xCc 18 Feb 2023

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