A few days ago, a primary school classmate asked me to borrow money, but I didn’t help him. On the one hand, I was short of money, and on the other hand, he was someone who had borrowed money from me many times.

The first two times they asked me to borrow money, they had just bought a house and a car and completed large expenses. They had just become a house and car slave and had no extra money. This time it is the post-epidemic era and it is also a bear market in the cryptocurrency circle. Everyone is having a hard time and I can’t help.

This friend was also a prominent figure in his early years. He started his own business and worked on projects. He once owned a house and a car in Beijing and was very successful at the time.

However, the industries they entered were always the last to enter. The business was good in the first two years of investment, but then they started to lose money, and finally they had to cut losses and sell the business.

Now he is back in a small city, but he is unwilling to find a job that pays 10,000 to 20,000 yuan. As someone who has made a lot of money, he looks down on small amounts of money, and he has no chance or funds to start over. When he was working on his second project, he had already asked everyone who could lend him money once, and no one helped him anymore.

Now he still relies on his elderly parents to work and support him. He doesn't work for long and has to look for other jobs every once in a while. The family of three is often under great pressure. His wife doesn't work and is a full-time childcare worker. Her salary is not enough to cover the expenses. Occasionally, I hear that he is borrowing money from that classmate again.

Fast and slow in life are relative. Sometimes, making money too quickly is not a good thing.

If this friend had not enjoyed the experience of making a lot of money in the early days, he would not have looked down on the salary of a few thousand yuan for working from 9 to 5 later on. However, most people rely on salary to get by, and with limited income every month, they can only live a down-to-earth life.

The same is true when we think of the crypto market.

Those who have made a lot of money through contracts will no longer care about the fluctuation of the spot price of 300 or 500 US dollars.

Some people can earn hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars from contracts in a day, but of course they can also lose it all in a day. The process of playing contracts is exciting and the profits are high, but it also ends quickly, and most people leave the market after losing all their money.

For example, Liang Xi, his voice is rarely heard now. After the myth of making 10 million from 1,000 US dollars, he was hailed as the "little prince of contracts", but he ended up in failure. Some time ago, he tore this person and that person, borrowed money to open contracts, issued coins to harvest fans, drank drugs to commit suicide, and sold personal accounts and other boring operations.

No matter how much he earned before, he has lost it all now. He is not even 20 years old, but he has earned more than ordinary people can earn in several lifetimes. His seriously distorted world and life views have now disappeared silently.

The market will not remember him either, they will only mention him after dinner or when they are sighing.

Of course, life has not ended, and nothing is concluded now. My opinions are only one-sided. Who knows whether the two friends above will be able to regain their glory and become the final winners?

As the old saying goes, the clear path seems obscure, and the forward path seems backward.

Repeating the same work every day, I feel like I am regressing and have gained nothing, but progress and gains may come after a period of time, when I look back.

Everyone pursues different life experiences at every age, so don't judge other people's lives.

Based on the experiences of the above friends, I also encouraged myself to keep working hard and keep my feet on the ground. Although typing every day seems to be very hard and there is no income; although I often lose money in spot trading and make little money; I even questioned my own way at one point.

But you should still pursue the direction that you think is correct, keep outputting, and insist on making a little progress every day. Only then can quantitative change lead to qualitative change.

There are no shortcuts in life. All the gifts given by fate are secretly marked with a price, and all the unintentional gains are the result of yesterday's efforts.

Only by being serious every day can you choose your future.

The market is bearish and life is difficult, but there are always opportunities. Let's encourage each other.

The above is just my personal opinion, not investment advice. I am Chu Xiaolian, and I am paying attention to the crypto market and web3.