Beatrice

I wasn't around from 2018-2020 (I was one of the many that left the space), but by all accounts, that crypto bear was WAY worse than the current one. It seems like the NFT bear however seems an order of magnitude worse than what's happening with the coins. Mass fear, mass capitulation, no real end in sight, lots of people leaving. Day after day, week after week, month after month of red. I think this is a good time to take a step back and zoom out. I know a LOT of people who have lost enormous sums of money (myself included), and it can feel pretty damn bad at times. Playing the "what if" game is hard to break out of. Comparing your current worth to your ATH net worth. Something that helps me is knowing how many people in crypto have lost it all and made it all back, simply by sticking around and working hard and being sensible and learning from past mistakes. The space is brutal. Absolutely brutal. Wallets get hacked/drained, centralized exchanges rug us, there's infinity scammers out there, the freaking UNITED STATES OF AMERICA seems out to get our industry at the best of times. If the reason you are here is purely to make money, you will probably always be going a little insane. But if you are here because you believe in something deeper -- because you GET the point of a decentralized, censorship-resistant, immutable, public, blockchain -- then it makes it a whole heck of a lot easier to stomach the swings. If you are here because of the people, the tech, the potential, anything, really, but number go up -- it makes it so much easier to maintain conviction. Not easy necessarily, just easier. If you're spiraling and feeling down, this is a REALLY great time to take a step away from Discord, Twitter, and checking your portfolio value. There's not much you can do right now about it -- you can try and buy or sell stuff but then you're trading at a time of peak emotional turmoil and I doubt you're going to be making rational choices. Take a few days, reset, relax, literally fucking touch grass, spend time with loved ones, catch up with friends, go to the movies, play diablo, whatever. It's just a great time to zoom out and take a break.