God bless you. https://steemit.com/@biblegateway

God bless you. https://steemit.com/@biblegateway

word.

We have to stomach some losses to be rewarded by tremendous gains. I'm still not sure if it only applies to Bitcoin.

I have had high hopes when I first came across cryptocurrency because there were lots of good news.  I joined a btc earning blog site before.  I enjoyed it and earned some.  However, I lost interest.  I guess it was the unpredictability that affects emotions. It is a roller coaster ride.  Now that I am in steemit, I don't expect much but just take every day as it is because we have no control of the market.  If the price goes up, then it's great.  If it goes down, then keep steeming on.  I haven't event cashed out from this platform since I joined.  I still want to see how far this platform can go and if I am willing to go along with it.

my backup plan is that I want to get into dapps development. But it means doing some really weird shit if I want to do it correctly.

I was moved enough to resteem this.

Living on $20 a day in the US is a full time job. This is a lifestyle that you became accustomed to but a lifestyle that others do not know about and could learn a lot from.

It must be the fact that I can still buy more every month that keeps giving me hope during these hard times. To not have that option must be hard. On the other hand I am a little envious of your freedom. I believe it will eventually get better and make your freedom all the brighter and more glorious.

Love this, @clayboyn. The steadfastness of the choice you @meno made is only admirable in my opinion; if I was alone, without girlfriend and kid, I would have made the same choice. At least that's what I like to believe, as you never know for sure untill you're actually *there*. ;-)

> The truth is I have zero faith in the corporate world and I think it's a never ending cycle of greed based on enslaving people. It's all based on scarcity mindset and it's sold on the premise that money and power give you control or in some way make you better than or at least better off than others. I think it's garbage.

That is, I think, the source of your conviction, and if it is, we are in full agreement :-)

Also, who made those wonderful dragons? You again? If yes, your backup plan is right there ;-)

Sounds like you are all in with the technology and either you will be the richest people on the planet if crypto moons. 

There are so many opportunities and choices to make in life and everyone deserves to try doing something than nothing. Having total focus on the task at hand will give you better chance to a successful outcome.

This is oddly inspirational, @clayboyn. It says a lot about commitment and personal values. Money is great, but one can be rich and dead (even if inside). I have never been in crypto for the money. If I was a really smart investor, maybe I would, but I decided when I joined Steemit a year ago just to focus on doing all the things -- the blogging, the connecting, the commenting, the upvoting and the resteeming -- and just see where it takes me. I'm a long-term hold. I believe this is going places, in spite of the dips (or... shall we say the canyons?). I believe we will all be glad we jumped in and did the*things* to help make decentralization a reality. It's not going to be pain free, but I don't doubt that it will be worth HODL'ing. 

I bet you know @jonknight. According to his latest [modeling](https://steemit.com/steem/@jonknight/modelingsteem-15jun-pricingthefuture-fb69nf368g), we will likely "cross the outside edge of the Extended Fall Channel on July 2nd at a price near $1.74." I actually have no idea what that means, but my gut tells me things are likely to go up after that. So yay!

I am impressed by your fierce determination to carve out a life worth living, that feels meaningful and isn't about settling for something that isn't right for you, and isn't about who you are. I absolutely believe that will pay off for  you.

I am not even close to being able to live off Steem.  So I really dont get much at all from my posts unless its the connection to others and the encouragement to grow as a person, and the encouragement of my art... well and my voice haha... but really.  That is more what I get out of being here than money, I can only dream of actually living off it.  So from the other end of the spectrum:  I agree with you.  There are other reasons to do this.  And honestly I think it would tank less hard if more people nurtured the interconnections and the creativity and innovation than they tried to nurture their wallets.  The money should always come as a natural side effect to those other things, or its hollow and empty.. and most importantly, more volitile.. less sustainable.   The framework and foundation should be the people.

This is exactly how I think. I've gone through soo much money and could tell anyone that things do not make anyone happy. I've seen miserable rich guys who made and continue to make money screwing other people over only to be seriously miserable with themselves (which explains why they keep chasing the dollar). I try to teach my kids this fact and it is very hard when the world seems to teach people that chasing money is the be all end all. Happiness is fleeting but it comes from quality time, creating, and being in a state of bliss while doing it.  Anyway man, spot on post.

*I wish everyone could have been an early adopter*
So much truth in that.

All of the best "world changers" were all in on something that they believed in without a safety net.  Many of them hit the ground on the first, second, third attempt.  Unlike the baby bird, hitting the ground financially doesn't kill you, it trains you for ultimate success by following something bigger than a desire for stuff or the hunger in your belly.  Success will be yours if you continue living this way, hopefully for steem too, but for you most definitely.  Thanks.

Thanks for sharing this honest post.
My respect for your faith for being all in here.  And this faith is visible in every single line of your content. 

And your little story fascinates me.
I wish you, my friend, all the best that one day your faith will be rewarded beyond your expectations​.

You speak like a spiritual warrior!
I love hearing this resolute energy you're exuding here, bro!
I really resonate with what you're expressing here.

I recall something my dad used to say to me a lot when I was younger when I'd decided to become a full-time performing artist. He said, *"get something to fall back on, son."*
He meant well, but even in my optimistic youth I knew he was wrong.
I always replied with, *"If I get something to fall back on, then I will (inevitably fall back on it)."*

You and @meno have both reflected my views. I can't bare the thought of going back to an office job that I hate, and all the BS that comes with it. So my bets are largely on crypto as well. The technology is constantly improving, there's a lot in the pipeline, and blockchain is not going away. As Andreas Antonopoulos said recently "you can take your country out of bitcoin but you can't take bitcoin out of your country". So I'm mostly in, and staying in. Keep buying those dips!

That is inspiring stuff, and I hope for the day when people take the same view and similar actions in droves, as opposed being totally fixated on accumulation of wealth and possessions that they don't need, in the "stab each other in the back" approach to getting ahead in the corporate world. That greed is a sickness amongst the human race, and a sickness that is manipulated by the media, who's work is mostly for the elite and the corporations.

The media keeping the pressure on by mongering fears and anxieties, to make people feel over gratefull to have their 'position' in the 'take shit from above, give shit out to those below' worlds they live in, either without them really knowing, being naive/brainwashed, or more likely I feel, the knowing, but wilfully ignorant. 

The sense of genuine warmth and inclusiveness that I see here at steemit, and that I very often feel in abundance, is natural and healthy. What we're doing here should not have to be deemed 'amazing' and "fuck me, that's different!", although it is of course 'amazing' and it's "Fuck me, it's different!", it just shouldn't be, and it wouldn't be if the human race was healthier as a whole. We all have to continue chipping away at the cracked veneer of the corporate world and our societies at large. 

Think about it, I don't think any of us feel unatural in our varied activities here at steemit. I've always felt the world needs more empathy, and that's one of the keys here I feel. I see so many empathic people doing great stuff at steemit.

Love, compassion and empathy, that's my holy trinity.

Having said that I've been absent these past few weeks, taking some time out to try and apply some of my compassion to myself, in a bid to sorting my fucked up headstate. It's taught me the importance of maintaining love, empathy and compassion towards the self, something I've neglected for too long. Try not to do that folks, without hindsight it messes you up far beyond your awareness at the time as you shut parts of yourself down, and makes you less able to participate in the giving and receiving of the above holy trinity.

I imagine from your journey, you will have no doubt experienced that in your own way  @clayboyn.

Big up ya big bad self!! 🤗👏👏👏

kinda like you i left my relatively safe job a few years ago. i majored in business too. i quit because i hated the corporate world. i would rather starve to death than to go back.
i think people are focused on the short term prices way more than they should be. FUD is everywhere, but clearly crypto is about to change the world. nobody knows whether it'll be in 5 years or 10 or 20, but the moment people start trading actual goods and services with crypto, it's over.

btw did you draw the dragons yourself?! 😱