In 2017, $BTC Bitcoin triggered that crazy market that everyone remembers.
The annual increase surged uncontrollably, with the account numbers refreshing my perception every day.
My funds were pushed all the way to 830,000. The screen flickered, and the numbers jumped faster than my heartbeat.
During that time, I hardly slept.
Not out of anxiety, but excitement.
I began to believe in a saying—
Financial freedom seemed really not far from me.
The first thing I did every morning,
was check my account.
My mind was filled with future images:
Not having to go to work, not having to lower my head,
Life directly shifting gears.
But the market can turn its back without any warning.
In 2018, the bubble burst.
The market fell all the way down,
The entire cryptocurrency market saw 70% of its value evaporate.
Yet I was still immersed in the fantasy of "it will come back."
When I should have left, I didn’t,
When I should have taken profits, I didn’t.
Watching the balance shrink day by day,
I kept thinking to wait a little longer.
Until one deep night,
There was only 180,000 left in the account.
I stared at the screen,
For the first time, I felt no emotion at all.
In that moment, I truly woke up.
What I had seen before,
Was just a string of numbers that could disappear at any time.
What’s not in my pocket, isn’t called money.
