I spent a good portion of the day yesterday with this view behind me. Not a bad view I will admit, but after a while it gets kind of old. If you read my post yesterday, you probably know that I spent my day at the hospital. I was sitting with my dad while my mom was having her knee replaced.
I got up at 4 AM to get to the hospital at 5 when she was supposed to be admitted. They took her back at 7 and then it was a waiting game until around 1 or 2 when the surgery was finally done.
I stayed at the hospital until just about 6 PM. It wasn't the first 14 hour day I have done. In fact, I do it pretty regularly on Monday's when I have a school board meeting, but somehow this one was different.
I am sure a lot of it had to do with the emotional toll of waiting to hear about the health of a loved one. When I got home last night, I was absolutely exhausted. I could barely keep my eyes open to eat dinner.
In that fleeting moment before I drifted off to sleep, I realized this might make for a great post.
Waiting is exhausting isn't it?
Waiting for news, waiting for mass adoption, waiting for regulation, waiting for the next bull run, waiting to get to that next milestone on Hive. It really wears you down.
I'm sure there is some kind of relation between something you are so emotionally invested in and how excruciating it is to receive news or updates on that something.
I remember when I was diagnosed with cancer several years ago, the worst part of the whole thing was the waiting. Waiting for appointments, waiting for test results, waiting for the next steps, it was honestly pretty horrible.
I think what makes it so bad is the fact that while you are waiting, you have so much time to get into your own head. It's dangerous almost. Immediately we have all kinds of time to start jumping to worst case scenarios.
What if mass adoption never happens? I'm sure some of you have had that thought before. What if this all goes to zero? There's another one I have a feeling one or two of you have said out loud or to yourself a time or two.
There's a danger in the waiting that takes your mind in all kinds of directions that are neither helpful or healthy.
I've got a bit more waiting ahead of me today. I have to meet my dad at the hospital around 9 to see if they are going to release my mom at 11 to go home. I have a feeling that two hour window is probably going to turn into a three or four hour window knowing how hospitals work.
I've never been the patient sort. I'd like to say that crypto has taught me the virtues of being patient, but I don't think that is the case. If anything it has made me more anxious to anticipate "what comes next".
It's like you are living life on the brink waiting for that single thing to tilt you one way or the other.
It's kind of easy to understand why people sometimes get tired of the waiting. Bear seasons are notorious for shaking some of those folks out. I'll be honest, I used to look down on people like that. "Look at them with their weak hands", but now, I kind of get it.
That doesn't mean I don't still get a little "judgey" when I see someone powering down, but on at least some level I get it a little more than I used to.
I guess the good news is, according to the "experts" we are already about halfway done with the waiting game in crypto. Then we get a bull run, and then we get to start waiting all over again.
Do you have the energy for what's coming?
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