I read today that many people are worried about all the red digits of the cryptocurrencies and the decreasing share prices.
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Of course, it is not fun to see all those red figures.
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But, why worry so much? After all:
You have followed the rule never to invest more money than you can actually lose;
You know, what goes up can come down and the other way around;
You are in for the long run with most of the money, so you only have to hold;
If you followed rule nr. one you can still buy some bread and something to drink and pay your mortgage (if you have one) or your rent.
But, truly, there are so many more important things in life.
I know it sounds like a cliché, but I mean it. Why?
Because just a couple of years ago I feared for the life of my husband. He had a severe heart attack in France and could not be moved to the Netherlands because he would not survive the trip. I was still in the Netherlands, I worked full-time at my school as a Principal. When I got the phone call and heard what happened, my heart (also) almost stopped.
Maybe I will tell you the whole story later, but at that moment I learned what real worries were. You don't think for a moment that in the days that followed I thought at the price of my shares (I had no crypto in those days) or anything else but the condition of my husband.
He survived and he is reasonably healthy, thank God, but that day I learned a lesson I will never forget.
The health of your loved ones is the most important thing in the world. If the life of someone you love is threatened there is nothing else that matters, certainly not the decreasing prices of crypto etc.
So, please, try to see things in perspective. Kiss your wife or your husband, your child or whoever and be happy that you are alive, that your loved ones are alive and (as I have said earlier in a post): "go to sleep and wait, worries are for the moment when there are real worries".
Have a nice day,
Clio