October 26, 2021

Does luck play an important role in our life to be successful individuals in any field?

We wish we could bring those lucky events that are beyond our control to fall into our way so we won't have the feeling of being unfortunate in certain things. And imagining the propeller of good luck controlling our fate, there'll be no poor, no sick, no sadness and pain, as well as unfortunate circumstances. And we all would be lucky in money, lucky in health, lucky in a relationship, and lucky in the career we have chosen.

Unfortunately, it isn't luck that is controlling our life because our fate has already been written when we were conceived in this world. And it is up to us to either follow that fate or create a new one. It changes while taking our different journeys anyway.

Even wealthy individuals sometimes wish luck to fall to their hands when things they wanted don't fall into place. The poorest of the poor wish to have the luck they aim for so they could lift themselves from being stuck in the mud. The sick ones on sickbeds wish to have luck or a miracle so they could spare their lives. And those who have suffered too much emotional pain from broken relationships wish to be lucky the next time they open their hearts again.

In some cultures, they believed in wearing lucky charms or putting good luck ornaments and other stuff in their businesses or houses to attract good luck. But are they even worth taking?

When I was young, my grandmother placed a bracelet with red-colored bids on my wrist in which she called lucky charms to attract luck and to avoid mischief because she believed that a young girl still can't navigate her life well.

Did I become lucky then?

I would not have experienced pain and sorrow if I had been lucky.

I would not have experienced confusion in making decisions if I had been lucky.

I would not have gotten sick if I had been lucky.

I would not be in this foreign land if I had been lucky.

Because even if I am living in the safest place in the world and having the life I dreamed of, bad luck and unfortunate circumstances would happen.

Why am I even blabbering about this matter?

Well, I am currently in this world where good luck is always followed by bad luck, just like how the bull is followed by the bear or vice versa.

When I stepped into this crypto-verse, I called myself lucky as I was able to acquire new things that I can call achievements and experiences, little and big. Since then, good luck has fallen in my way and I thought they would keep coming.

Should I call myself lucky as I got a five-digit crypto portfolio from scratch and only invested time and effort? That is worth six digits in my native currency.

When I stepped forward, FORTH unexpectedly fell which fulfilled my goal. I then purchased more green coins as I thought I could earn higher profit in return. Unfortunately, bad luck brought by the bear shortly took over the market. Until then, the green coin and the majority coins of the market have not recovered the ATH price yet up to this date. They tried to, but the peak they have reached before is just too high to reach again.

However, luck is still given out by these two platforms, and no matter how arduous the crypto road is or inevitable the bear is, we are still lucky to be onboarded by these two ships and get the opportunity to continue to sail.

Moreover, every time the good samaritan of this platform showered blessings and benefited us, our joy can not be contained as if we won a lottery. And every time the bull dominates the rally, we always have a one-time achievement, albeit shortly, and wish for good luck to continue to skyrocket to the moon. But it always comes back and falls deeply, lol.

We wished for DeFi before to invade the BCH ecosystem, and here it is, giving more good earning opportunities to us. More opportunities, more profits, that's what we thought.

The beginning was great as we've seen how our sBCH portfolio spiked double to triple from our initial investment. I was supposed to be lucky when EBEN's price reached $3. But what have I done? I did nothing to get more profit from it. And I can't turn back the hands of time anymore.

And as the ecosystem became bigger, it attracted more frauds to invade and scam the BCH community. Are you one of the victims?

What have you felt when you experienced the first rug pull in your crypto journey?

We feel sad every time the price of our ideal crypto drops, dragging our profits down and losing some portion of our initial investments. But we feel happy once the market recovers and see the bull coming as it can cover up the losses. We become used to the pumps and dumps of the trends in the crypto market. We even learned how to retrace to take the opportunity of the small spikes and dumps when the market is volatile and able to get back on track. We even learned how to dive into complicated and risky future trading.

As time went by, those strategies and routines became part of our lives, as well as the FUDs and FOMOs. Those scenarios become so normal to us.

However, the feeling of being a victim of rug pull is different. It is as if we are being fooled and robbed at the same time. Good luck is no longer on our side. And we better experience a long bear market season as there are still chances to recover the losses, but rug pulls are rug pulls. They are like bubbles that eventually vanish in the air.

And all we could do is to accept the fact that lost crypto could no longer be recovered unless given other ways to retrieve them. However, along with the possible ways are negative circumstances that we could tell we are unlucky again.

Just like in my case. Even though I try hard to recover my tokens from the rug-pulled beachswap pools and vaults, the device I am using is giving me bad luck. My laptop is useless and it's hard to execute things using only a phone. And just like what @RowanSkie said, the alternative way of pulling out is somehow failing.

After multiple times of trying, I still can't figure out which part of my procedure is wrong. So I gave up and let bygones be bygones and pick up the lessons from this experience.

But after many lessons I picked up from different experiences in this past year, it seems like I am still not learning, lol.

And from this moment onwards, I need to apply an alternative strategy because I could feel that the previous one isn't that effective. Until now, I couldn't see any profit in my wallet as they were all used to invest in other projects, and some have rug pulls, unfortunately. And my portfolio decreases as well due to decrease in the prices of different tokens that are on top of my list.

Nonetheless, I still called myself lucky for surpassing the challenges in the past 32 years of existence, exempting the innocent years. I might call myself lucky as my losses aren't that huge compared to others. (@MoreGainStrategies sorry for your losses).

But still, as I've said before, every single coin counts here. The precious time and effort we spent in earning those coins shouldn't just be wasted.

Let this serve as a lesson for those who are trying to find luck inside this crypto-verse. Not all the time, luck goes on your side, so you should be accountable for your actions and be prepared for the consequences. Because even if we DYOR a thousand times if the bait is attractive, there are still chances that we could get hooked by it and fall into greedy hands. And the luck of hopping out of the pit and recovering the losses is uncertain. And I guess, even the whales and those who have great knowledge of crypto stuff have been caught unexpectedly.

We may be lucky on some days, but be aware that bad luck comes as well. As the song says, "some days are diamond, some days are stone." And we'll be expecting more stony days in the following days 🤣. So be vigilant, and careful in your every step, lol.

That's all for these ramblings. I just want to vent this feeling out as I don't want to remain it long inside me. It's not worth keeping.

Besides, I am still lucky that I wake up every morning kicking and alive, hitting the sack at night safe and sound, grinding inside this crypto world, and still gaining BCH. Moreover, I have a job, a roof to stay in, clothes to wear, and food to fill my tummy. My family on the other side of the world is already free from COVID-19 symptoms. And I am LUCKY to have these things.

I may not be lucky in other things, but I know, I AM BLESSED.

What about you? Are you lucky or not?

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