I’m a dreamer, always have been. Even though I’d like to think I have a good percentage of realist in me, it’s not always the case. Sometimes I get a tad bit too dreamy and my feet are higher than the 5 inch heels I’m wearing, above the ground level.
For the past ten years or so, I’ve had a certain Mr Hyde in my life, who keeps me in check in those times when I get a little too high, and seem like I can’t get back down on my own accord. It’s time for tough love baby girl.
Mr Hyde usually fires a couple warning shots, but if that doesn’t get my hot air balloon back from the stratosphere, he’s not afraid to fire a whole round of ammo to it, blunging me to the icy Baltic Sea. Sometimes I feel like a piñata, a marionette, carcass on the desert or a roadkill bunny. Still, nine times out of ten, I had it coming and he was right to make me feel like so.
He gives me a serious dose of real, day to day, normal life and the ugly side of all that has to do with humanity. Slap in the face. It's a dirty and nasty shot of verbal reality and I have no choice but to take it. Sometimes I act like a little kid, putting my hands over my ears, trying to mute the ugly sounds bursting my pretty pink bubble. I am good at hide and seek but Mr Hyde has a military training and he always finds me. And then I take the beating and listen.
After digging the shotgun rounds out of my insides and licking the salt out of my wounds, I eventually come crawling back, grateful of the much needed reality check.
Living on the internet, among the digital nomads and crypto currency evangelists, and having experienced the all time highs, it’s easy to get swept off your feet by promises of riches and freedom, the new world order. Travel the world, do hardly any work but earn enough to make all your dreams come true and live happily ever after. Nope.
Ain’t no such thing as free lunches, not even in the decentralized world of blockchain technology.
But one can dream. Dream of the Lambos, millions of dollars, richness in friends and love, the freedom of travelling around the world. You just need to keep your feet on the ground and work hard to make it happen, but running without aim will take you nowhere good. Mr Hyde also reminds me to enjoy the success I have achieved so far, to take a deep breath and stay still for a while.