Most of us grew up hearing the phrase: "Don't judge a book by its cover."
Itโs good advice, but I think we miss the deeper truth behind it. We usually apply it to outward appearances, but what about when a book just... stops? What about when a familiar presence suddenly vanishes from your feed, your community, or your life?
When someone goes silent, pulls away, or has a sudden "exodus," the outside world is quick to fill in the blanks. People assume they gave up. People assume they stopped caring. People make up a story that fits what they can see from the outside, taking it personally or writing the person off completely.
We judge the sudden absence without ever realizing what led to the quiet.
That saying needs to be permanently coupled with another one: Put yourself in the other personโs shoes.
Sometimes people donโt walk away because they wanted to leave the things they love. Sometimes they get lost in a heavy storm. Sometimes life hits them with a private battle, a personal struggle, or a numbness so thick that they simply don't have the energy left to keep up appearances. They aren't abandoning their passionโthey're just trying to survive the fog.
If you see someone go quiet, don't rush to judge the ending of their chapter. Remember that you only see the surface of their cover, not the heavy pages they've had to turn in private. A little empathy goes a further way than an assumption ever will.
#Perspective #PutYourselfInTheirShoes #EmpathyFirst #MentalHealthAwareness #BehindTheScenes #HumanFirst #LifeLessons #MindsetShift
I was recently doing some research on Bitcoinโs historical moves in bear markets. It seems like #Bitcoin has historically moved between 77% and 85% down from its all-time high of the bull market before it finally bottoms out and goes back up again.
Looking at past cycles, the drops from the peak to the bottom of the dip have actually been getting smaller each time:
โข2013โ2015 cycle: Down about 85%
โข2017โ2018 cycle: Down about 83%
โข2021โ2022 cycle: Down about 77%
Right now, sitting around $73,500, we are roughly 41% down from our all-time high. It kind of reminds me of how the old stock market used to go through wild, boom-and-bust cycles before it finally leveled out and stabilized over generations.
Because of that historical trend of each cycle having a smaller drop from the peak to the bottom of the dip than the last, it seems like we may actually see less than a 77% maximum dip on this run down.
That being said, I believe that we are going to see more of a dip before we finally bottom out and go up again, but I could be wrong. What are everybody else's thoughts?