i’ve been in this space since 2021 and i didn’t come here because i had nothing else going on. i came here because i believed in something tbh
but lately i keep having the some conversation and it never happens on the timeline. it happens in dms , at 2am in a voice note or when someone finally admits they’ve been down bad for eleven months on spaces and they’ve just been posting like everything is fine.
and i’ve started to notice how much of what we call conviction is actually just silence. Nobody has found the piece. not the ones posting pnls , not the ones who “called it,” not even the big accounts. we’re all standing in the same room hoping somebody else knows what next .
the memes don’t run like they used to. nfts are a race to zero and everyone knows who sells last is the fool. every other week a protocol gets hacked people get drained financially then emotionally . the percentage of people actually making money is relatively small and in greater decline than ever and yet the amount of confidence on this app never drops. this the thing i can’t stop thinking about.
meanwhile there’s a whole world outside. people who never opened a wallet in their life are building careers, businesses, families. ai is eating jobs and reshaping entire industries and half of us only hear about it when there’s a token attached. we’re maybe 1% of the world’s population, and we talk like we’re the only ones who figured it out. sometimes i wonder if we’re early. Other times i wonder if we’re just isolated and clueless disguised as early.
so i want to ask the question i think a lot of people are carrying quietly,
what is actually keeping you here?
is it still conviction or you genuinely think this thing changes sometime sooner
Or is it habit , you’ve been locked in here for so long that stopping feels like losing an identity? is it the people because let’s be honest, some of the realest relationships in my life came from this timeline and no bag can replace that? or is it that you’re down so bad that leaving means admitting it, and staying feels cheaper?
there’s no wrong answer. i’m not trying to convince anybody to quit. i’m still here. i’ll probably still be here when the next thing runs 😉
i just think we’d all be a lot less lonely if we said the real thing out loud once in a while.
So what’s yours?