It's been a tough three years.
We've went from being the premium tokens on hive-engine to something that barely anyone talks about.
I've scrounged and scrimped and worked long nights to keep the lights on -- sometimes debating myself whether I'll have a project in three years. It didn't look good at all.
I had been drowning in debt, struggling to keep the lights on at home, and everything I have been doing here has been for free, and weirdly, my production has been so that I can show up and reward you guys at the end of the day.
What kept me going was hope.
Hope that for all things considered that institutions have been piling into the cryptosphere over the last 3 years and we were headed into a super bull.
Hope that splinterlands would heal and that all would be well.
Say what you want about hope -- but hope is one of the most powerful emotions humanity has in it's arsenal.
Hope is what took us from caves to building skyscrapers and creating digital money. Someone had to sit there and hope for a better world.
But we finally come to the end of our struggles in the brotherhood now. I've been building for 9 months.
I've finished.
We're soon to kick off in a way that will get the whole of hive talking about us. They will talk, oh yes they will.
We may even pull in some outside eyes, who knows.
So thanks, guys and gals -- for those that remained with me, bled with me, sat with me for what has been perhaps the most difficult three years of my entire life.
I held on when I really didn't need to. But life has a funny old way of rewarding the warriors.
Our time is now.
Those of you that read me, enjoy me, sit in my community with me -- take this time to get comfortable with your surroundings.
Embrace life for what it is, shed bad relationships, embrace new ones, rekindle old flames, and make peace with your environment.
For where we are going, it's not just indie token in the back waters of nowhere anymore.
I know a lot of you have been moving differently as of late, feeling differently -- this is no accident. The fire came for me, and it most definitely will come for you too, if it hasn't already.
Embrace it -- let it forge you, because it will help you for what's to come.
The fire helps, even when sometimes you think it doesn't -- because it can be extremely painful at times.
But as I've always said, we forge meaning through pain. This is why we write on the flame.
But hold onto that hope.
Hope is 100000x more powerful than negativity. In fact it is the only thing that is more powerful than negativity.
Without hope we are demoralized.
We're reaching for the stars soon everyone.
Get ready to hope big.
Today, I throw my financial struggles onto the flame.