@ramonoropeza 4 January 2025

From Adversity to Inspiration: Reflections and Goals for the New Year, Thanks BCH! Happy and prosperous 2025 to all the BCashers who read and follow me! May God bless you this year and many successes in all your projects! I thank life for allowing me to continue here with you and among us. New Year's wishes. The year 2024 was hard on me but God did not fail me. Since the beginning of the year I was struggling to get ahead doing different jobs: taxi driver, community manager, receiving remittances... However, nothing was enough and I decided to seek help from a great friend with whom I have an outstanding debt. I presented my project to work with Binance P2P and also my ambition to be a professional Community Manager and start a career in digital marketing. I must thank him for everything he has believed in me, as well as many on this platform. Thanks to this I was able to buy my laptop and start all my projects. However, life or 2024, my bad luck... I don't know what, would come to change everything: on April 20th I had a serious car accident where I seriously ran over a young man with a motor disability, which caused me to lose most of the capital I had up to that moment, it also led me to spend a few days in jail and several months under judicial surveillance. In addition, I have had to actively collaborate with his medical expenses. All this quickly deteriorated my fragile economy and has led me to ruin. Thank God, and with the help of my BCasher friends, I have been able to take a breath and not lose faith. Since last October I have had financial support that has allowed me to work on Binance P2P and be able to at least cover some basic expenses. I work every day, currently with a capital of $700, this allows me to have an income of at least $200 per month. With which I can pay for internet, buy food for my home and pay for basic services, among other small emergencies that occur without fail in the Venezuelan reality. Finding our purpose. Many times as human beings we do not really know why we came to this world. Until a few years ago I only wanted to be a successful young businessman, but now it is different. It is really difficult to find a purpose to keep going, my mother has been my greatest motivation until now, my pillar to keep my flame burning. But I wonder what will become of me when she is not here… What reason will I have to be here? I have friends, I love my brother but it is not the same. My deepest desire this year and in this time is to achieve one more reason why I should continue. I would like to get my bakery back and try to be who I was before or better. I am fascinated by being part of the revolution that is BCH. Or seeking to be a successful businessman and being able to travel the world. Finding our purpose in this time and space is the most complicated thing when we are aware of how ephemeral we are. Sometimes in times of economic difficulties, my mother innocently tells me: “son, play a lottery ticket, you never know what your luck will be…” and I feel sorry because buying a ticket here is something I prefer not to do and I simply smile and tell her not to believe in such things. However, I have been lucky; first because of the life that she gave me as a mother, second because in the most difficult moments God has not abandoned me and we have found the way to move forward. Sometimes I wonder if my thoughts would be different if I had a better economic condition or perhaps I would not have time to think about these things… I am not a conformist person, on the contrary, I consider myself someone ambitious to achieve my goals. That is why money for me is not an end but a means to achieve it. I have always liked to help and collaborate with people and I think that this could be my purpose in life, to leave the world a little better than we found it. Goals That is why my goals this year are to deepen my work as a remittance agent in Binance P2P and also teach people how to work with cryptocurrencies. Creating the Spanish-language dissemination platform for the Bitcoin Cash environment is one of my personal goals to contribute to the community and the original Satoshi project. Starting to plan the return of my bakery, finding a way to finance this project again or simply obtaining the resources is one of my dreams that I want to turn into a goal. Personally, I would like to be able to have $100k and have the ability to know how to invest it. From here in Venezuela, I could create a small taxi company and a chain of small stores where drinking water is refilled and there would still be money left over to create my bakery and buy one or two properties. In Venezuela, with that money you can buy between 6 to 7 properties in areas that can potentially improve the investment and rent them out while that happens at $250 per month each… would that be a good investment for you? You would have a net income of around $20,000 per year. Personally, I think we live in a world where everything has accelerated and this is not so attractive but I think it is not at all negligible. In the same sense, I would like to have the serious opportunity to interact with the environments created in BCH and other blockchains, I have been nourished by the entire crypto ecosystem for more than 8 years and I have not yet had a real opportunity to interact in them. Following the spirit of my mother, it is not bad to dream and work to achieve perhaps one day being able to develop so many ideas. I have been through so much that I have nothing to lose and everything to gain. In my heart I am very grateful for everyone who has supported me and believed in me. They are also part of my reason for moving forward. A big hug, my most sincere wishes for a healthy and prosperous year! I love you! **I am looking to raise $1000 (2.11 BCH to date) to be able to start over. This amount will be distributed as follows:** $600 for my training as a community manager and in digital marketing. $400 to buy audiovisual production equipment. I previously wrote an article which is the basis for this project, here it is so you can appreciate it. **bitcoincash:qqr0zl4jznduv88xz8pegu0fx44hatpatgh5rkqenx** **CryptoBakery: The simple BCH ecosystem for everyone.** https://read.cash/@ramonoropeza/cryptobakery-the-simple-bch-ecosystem-for-everyone-flipstarter-1f2f5a3e