When I Saw Myself in Them
It's really amazing when you see a specific version of yourself in others; it feels like that person is a replica of me. The amazing part is when it's on the positive side, but it saddens me when I see someone going exactly the same way that took me downwards. I feel like I'm walking towards the very same path again, I try my heart and soul to convince about the reality.
Recently, I got two versions of myself, one is walking towards the positive side, and the other has already gone in vain, just like I did once upon a time. That was the price I have paid to come into reality, and still bearing the after effects, trying to get past to into slowly but steadily.
Like around 2021, 2022, I had a peak time in my life, maybe the most comfortable period I had spent financially. I had multiple sources of income, and crypto was one of them. I had investments, savings, and a continuous flow. But I was a little bit careless, didn't push myself hard, and was just flowing with the waves in my comfort zone. People who pushed harder made almost 10 to 100x more than me. I could have made at least 10x more than what I did if I were a little bit serious and utilised those opportunities properly instead of just chilling in comfort.
Around 2023, my comfort zone faded away, and the aftereffects kinda hit me hard till 2025, and now in 2026 Im just recovering towards a stable position slowly but steadily. For the past two years, I have been pushing myself beyond the limits, being too inhuman to my soul just to do my best I can do. Only if I did one-fourth of this during that 2021-2022 phase, then I would have been thousands of times better than now. What gone is gone, let's move ahead.
Just saw someone similar to that phase of mine. He is at the start of his career and got a good opportunity for a kickstart, but due to his comfortable prioritiies he kinda fuc**d up and ended the journey pretty badly. He got privileges, he doesn't need to push himself harder, he thought of going with the flow as he doesn't have any backslashes and was kinda chilling mood. I saw him going towards downwards, this place isn't that chilling, it needs to push harder to keep surviving here to that level which gives some stress-free ownership, you gotta earn that place first. I warned him, made him realize the facts that he should consider, and guided him over and over again on the same thing. But the reality was, he could easily afford the worst-case decision from here, and that privilege kinda kept him from pushing towards harder and leading to the end.
On the other hand, another guy, whose back is against the wall, is kinda pushing harder to survive here. And I must admit that his efforts are good enough to take him to the upper levels on the journey. This version of him is just like mine past one year, maybe the reasons are different, but we realized that nothing can be gained by chilling on the comfort zones, we must push ourselves as hard as possible, and only then we would be able to achieve greater things.
To be honest, this early adulthood of ours, starting from around 23/24 till 30, we are able to push ourselves to extremes; this is the peak time for ourselves to go the hardest possible ways to achieve great things. I realized this late, but glad that I did, and following that. I do pray and hope he will be able to continue on this path and will do better than I.