I gave up 0.50btc.
At least.
I stopped giving value to society and instead gave value to myself.
I haven’t worked this year, but instead have traveled and lived abroad, living off of my bitcoin.
Sometimes, I seem crazy to myself, thinking that I decided to enter my first full year as a hardcore Bitcoiner living on the bitcoin standard by continually spending bitcoin, not stacking.
There’s no doubt in my mind that I would’ve been able to stack at least half a coin this year. A lot of sats carrying great purchasing power into the future.
But instead, I’ve spent a lot of sats.
And I’m ok with that.
I measure my wealth in sats, but my life in memories, in experiences, and in growth. While my sat stack has shrunk, my life stack has grown, much more than I expected.
Working to live and not living to work is one of my core values.
At times, I beat myself for thinking about how much Bitcoin I decided not to be able to stack this year, especially given the big picture of where Bitcoin currently sits and what it will become.
However, I need to slap myself and remember that the future is not guaranteed. I’m not speaking about Bitcoin when I say this, but rather my life.
There’s no guarantee that tomorrow comes for me, so the time to take off and live the life I’d been wanting to live for years was now (well, then).
And in a way, I’ve already worked to live. I put in the work and effort to put myself into a situation where I could just live for a year.
I’ll continue to live an incredible life for a couple of months more. Then, I’ll get back to stacking.
Though, my sats stack will never outgrow my life stack. And that’s exactly how it should be.
