I'm going to tell a short story of one of my friends from crypto, for the story we are going to call him Bob Bob and I have very similar backgrounds, we both started this cycle w nothing but had some previous cycle experience Bob had a very natural talent for trading and holding select cryptos that always seemed to outperform In the beginning of our trading group he was what me and most of my friends considered the best, he came up very quickly in basically a years time From the beginning of 2024 up until January of 2025 Bob was around pretty much always, then TRUMP happened I guess this was a pivotal point for Bob, he saw what most everyone wasn't able to see and just dipped before Q1 even ended Bob joined the call one day and told us he sold all of his crypto, not a penny was left in the game and he was off to go live his life And after that we didn't really see Bob anymore, he would hop online occasionally if a new onchain bubble appeared to be popping up, trade for a day or 2 (via loans) and then offline again Being as good of a trader as he was I am 100% certain that if he stuck around he would have more money than he has today, but that's not the point of this story The point of this story is that Bob came in the game with nothing, left with gen wealth after a year went by, avoided all of the bullshit we went through this year and is probably way happier than majority of the people on this app Thinking about Bob today not only made me miss having him around in calls but made me remember that the goal of this game is to leave one day and I think I lost sight of that for a while If you are determined to make it in crypto obviously its going to take time, you can't get there by doing nothing, you have to sacrifice alot and not everyone is going to make it in a years time But I think that everyone can learn something from Bob, set goals, work hard and when you achieve them... this is the part that most of us struggle with, allow your hard work to translate into a good life and go live it