This is one of the most honest things I've seen written about failure.
The loneliness of unwitnessed effort is real. No one throws a ceremony for the man who gave everything and still lost. There's no crowd for that moment.
But here's what I keep coming back to: you're not trying for the audience. You're trying because the alternative is becoming someone who stopped. And that version of you is harder to live with than any failure the world can hand you.
The farmer doesn't control the harvest. He controls whether he shows up to the field.
Unless they see results, people won't believe you tried.
The world judges effort by its outcome. If you win, you worked hard. If you don't, maybe you didn't try hard enough. That is the verdict, fair or not.
But effort and results are not the same currency. A man can give everything and still come up empty. The ground does not always reward the farmer who worked it hardest.
This is what makes failure lonely in a way that success never is. The person who succeeds gets witnesses. The person who tried and failed stands alone with something nobody can verify and most people won't bother to believe.
Try anyway.
Why not try the comparison with BNB let's see which one outperforms the other.
You can literally start crypto with $0 and make hundreds or even thousands of $$ just by farming airdrops. You can't do that in stocks, you have to put your own money to work.
In stocks, you can't even make or lose more than 10% on a stock in a day which makes it less volatile
A friend told me he has ₦2 million sitting in a commercial bank savings account.
I asked him how much interest he earned last month.
He did not know.
I told him. At 8.35% per annum, he earned roughly ₦13,917 in one month. Before tax, after the 10% withholding tax the government takes off savings interest, he took home about ₦12,525.
Inflation last month was 15.38%.
His ₦2 million lost about ₦25,633 in real purchasing power that same month.
He earned ₦12,525. He lost ₦25,633. Net position: down ₦13,108 in a single month while thinking he was saving.
This is happening to millions of Nigerians right now.
The same ₦2 million in a money market fund earning 20% per annum would have paid him ₦33,333 that month. Still not perfect against inflation but dramatically better. Nearly three times what the bank paid him.
The same ₦2 million in Treasury Bills at 21% would have paid him ₦35,000.
The difference between being financially intentional and financially passive in Nigeria today is not small. It is the difference between losing ground slowly and actually building something.
Your bank is not your enemy but your bank is also not your financial advisor. They will never call you to say their product is underperforming inflation. That call is not in their interest.
That call is yours to make.
₦2 million, ₦12,525 take-home interest. ₦25,633 lost to inflation. Every single month.
Now you know.