It seems to me that the world runs — to a large degree — on hope.

I mean let's face it: you have to have some hope in order to feel substantially encouraged to move forward, right? When hopelessness sets in, you end up just sitting there.

Sometimes I struggle to find much enthusiasm for what I'm doing because dealing with a protracted series of disappointments isn't exactly something that instills hope in someone.

How often can you keep getting up in the morning and tackling your daily tasks at hand with enthusiasm, when it seems like there is more likelihood that your reward will either be little-to-nothing, or will slowly become nothing?

Maybe it is just a sign of our times that disappointment seems like a constant part of the landscape. That said, I really don't like feeling disappointed, and I'm willing to bet that most people who read these words would not be happy about it either!

Of course, a lot of the time people feel rather helpless and stuck in whatever they're doing.

Consider all the times that you — or maybe one of your close friends — has talked about how they might be feeling like their work is a dead end situation with little promise of improvement, yet they simply can't afford to leave or make a change because they are part of a system that requires them to keep the nose to the grindstone at all times.

Most of us experience the world as a place with few — if any — "soft landings."

I remember having that hopeless feeling, myself, when I was working in a fairly mainstream job and I realized that whereas I wanted change, I had lots of bills and obligations that prevented me from taking the steps I really would want to take.

Yikes!

So we find ourselves in a situation where we might be able to change for the better on a long term basis, but we still have to find the hope and enthusiasm to move forward through the dead end situation in the short term and the middle term.

We look at our options, and instead of being able to jump to some oasis of peace, we can only see jumping from one "fire" to another. "Lateral misery," you might call it.

So how do we create happiness in small victories? How do we move forward?

In a strange sense, the Cryptosphere offers some insight, or perhaps even a "model," of sorts.

How so?

I look at some of my own relatively successful crypto investments, and it almost invariably seems like that "success" takes the shape of short bursts of euphoric parabolic rises, followed by protracted slow periods of decline or going sideways.

You seem to actually lose some percentage a year for what feels like an almost interminable time... and then there's a doubling or more in maybe as little as a month... and then you go back to that slow miserable decline.

I won't speculate too much on why it seems that way, beyond just random thoughts that this industry is more focused on short term profits than long term gains. It's very different from most legacy investment vehicles. Everyone seems to be waiting for the next "Moon," just so they can sell and take profit.

As time passes, I am increasingly learning the value of not "number watching," and just celebrating and finding hope in the fact that my days had some small positive in them.

Even if the overall value declined, I find comfort in knowing that I added a few more Hive Power to my stake this week.

Hopefully it will pay off, some day.

There's hope in that!

Thanks for visiting and having a look at my blog, and till the next one!

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