I used to suppress everything. Felt like I had to in order to survive. Parents didn’t care, friends didn’t care, girlfriends didn’t care. Everyone was happy with me being a suppressed version of myself. It was working for them and probably for me too. One day it stopped working. It became painful to be who I was “supposed” to be. So I stopped suppressing things. I started saying everything out loud. This pissed a lot of people off. The world shifted around me. I lost relationships. I made new ones. People who respected me for who I actually was, not just who I was pretending to be. Life is so much better now. But it was painful for awhile. My advice? Break free. That shits gonna stop working for you sooner or later. Might as well be who you were meant to be.

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I've honestly never ran across anyone in the BTC community that dislikes you HODL. I can't say that about many. 🤷 So keep on keeping on. 🫡
I've been feeling the effects of this at work, nobody likes hearing the truth. But I've got fuck you money and they need me more than I need them. So I just tell it to them straight.
I agree, been there done that, if you can't be who you are then what the fuck are you doing....
I went through that phase. It’s fun. Kind of gleeful to be twisting the knife on everyone’s delusions. The best moment though is when you finally walk out the front door
I'm sure there are, but just my experience so far. I've seen most bitcoiners attacked at some point in time, but never you. Weird 🤔
started being myself more at work and outside of work as soon as I became financially independent. I dunno why but that's what the trigger was for me, and since then I've been much more fulfilled
The older I get the less I give a damn about what people think of me. I am who I am. If you don’t like it too bad for you. 🫡
I predict that most people will get back to being genuine and authentic this year. Many will be tested. Everything fake will die.
we live hear once. I must say I should have the attitude of DGAF a lottttttttt sooner🧡🧡
I live this. I know I'm a decent guy, so what I communicate is just honesty. It's refreshing for most people except the incompetent and ignorant.
Same here, just trying to be me, not everyone likes it but I really don't care 🤷‍♀️
lol I know being confronted is the only way I would ever wake up and pay attention so I tried to do that for other people. Not the most Buddhist way to inspire and awakening but hey results are results lol
Signal has to be strong to get through the noise and results usually matter most. I routinely have had to dump cold water on people in various ways to get their attention but, like you, have been trying to find other less direct techniques - especially when the orange pill is concerned.
You are both people. Your choice to break free is the choice to be the person you want to be. Your actions dictate your character.
You're the same person but less stifled and censored. I can't imagine raising children and knowing that their parent is not themself but rather the loser version of Walter White.
as i get older the list gets shorter of whose opinions matter to me, sometimes down to one name: myself what matters: being true to principles staying focused building what's meaningful letting noise fade status and being liked is temporary illusions seeking truth requires solitude & letting go of external validation building value requires clarity free from distraction of others' expectations the rest? irrelevant.
“Don’t wish it was easier, wish you were better” One of the hardest sentences heard from my Sensei
But it’s not nonsense: authenticity has a price, like losing parts of one’s support network that validate one’s current identity and without whom/which (could be a wife or flat screen TV) one would feel vulnerable. Bitcoin incentivizes authenticity. That’s what FY money really means: if one’s an insecure asshole, Bitcoin sponsors and amplifies this. Same for good character traits too though!
I'm currently on this journey. It's good but tough. Real world relationships are being mended as I'm being the bigger person in both family and friend circles. I win & they win.
Thanks for sharing. Still working through this myself. Bitcoin helps. Faith too I feel.
It’s working for you! But yet it’s not my true me Sorry your butt hurt 🤷🏼 #haiku