Inspired or Not Inspired — Just Keep Swimming!
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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Hive may never "take off" but it has been the place I feel most comfortable writing or responding to another person's writing. My social media is a joke that isn't funny. Sometimes Hive is funny. As a crypto, it is as good a base to work with than any other. It's more decentralized than most, but has a form of governance. I do like the idea and hopium, but I do have a life and Hive is more of a temporary distraction and sometimes a log of what's going in IRL. But even IRL it is difficult to keep on swimming. Even basic things like finishing my taxes are being put off too long. Maybe we think about things too much and need some king of easy three word slogan to get us back in the game.
Indeed, the idea of Hive and its potential is what keeps me interested enough to keep contributing.
I'm not very good at social media; I suppose I have hisorically been at least a "passable" blogger, in terms of commentary and observations and such.
IRL is a heavy load these days, so Hive is actually a welcome diversion... when I can justify spending time with it!
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Good content to reflect on here, @curatorcat.pal. I will combine these two questions, to provide a little input to it:
I would suggest one critical piece of the puzzle you are pondering over here is a simple 4-letter word.
Oh, boo! Says a deep seated part of the human condition. It is a fascinating study of the human condition to see how much effort is expended to try and pretend there must be some way around this.
As you rightly point out, given we all wrestle with this to one degree or another, simply being consistently resolute in just showing up is big. Take the first step. Don't project into the future, when none of us truly know with any certainty. Then, take the next step ...
When we persevere, as an act of our will no matter how we feel, and just show up, with good intentions, it is remarkable how often the outcome is very different from what we imagined it would be.
The "image" of this thing called work seems to have changed a lot over the years, or so it seems.
These days, people almost worker harder at avoiding work than they work at actual work... and I can't help but wonder whether it's the result of so many haveing been sold the proverbial "bag of goods" concerning this idea that work is supposed to be so fulfilling and make us happy. Gone are the days when you just went to work, collected a paycheck, and that was that.
The cryptosphere is a strange microcosm in the sense that the self-image it has built for itself revolves so substantially around the idea of "easy money" and "money for nothing."
A game in which there are typically far more losers than winners.
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Far, far more ... Back to the human condition, just like if you walk into a casino, lots of noise when someone has won something. Crickets when the far more common losses occur. All those shiny objects and flashing lights cost money.
Which has to come from somewhere!?
What is sad to me is the delusion that somehow crypto provides people some sort of escape from reality. That there really is a magic money tree! And they will somehow be exempt from the human condition, wandering around in these make believe virtual utopian worlds, in search of it.
Nope ...