Ah, something to write after a looong time...
I think I just discovered a WHOLE new life philosophy for myself. It's probably something people have already thought up on their own, in their own lives, but here's my version of it.
Life is a stock exchange...
Yep...life's a marketplace, and do you know what the currency here is? Do you know what people trade with?
It's happiness.
Life is a stock exchange and every one of us...each and EVERY one of us is constantly investing our own happiness in each other.
Make new friends...you emotionally invest yourself in them.
Get closer to a friend...you're buying new stock.
Fall in love...you're looking to partake in a hostile takeover...which is unbelievably ironic.
Marry someone...you guessed it...merger.
But then, sometimes stocks crash...friendships are broken, lovers estranged...
Shit happens...
Sometimes, the whole market crashes, phew...And it's not a coincidence either that an economic downturn is called a 'depression'.
I'm quite the stock broker here, you know.
I'm not saying I'm any good at it, I'm just saying I do a lot of buying and selling. It's like I've had nothing else to do recently.
Many a stock I've bought has crashed...some have soared for a while, tempting me to invest more(which I invariably do), only to hit bottom like a skydiver with a problem.
That's not to say though, that I have not invested in the occasional gem, the return on which has constantly been overwhelming.
Some have shown promise for long periods of time, then suddenly died out.
As usual though, no naming names on this blog.
But now the reason for coming up with this wonderful analogy(yes it is!)...
I'm retiring my business...though almost certainly temporarily. For how long I'm going to close shop though, I don't know. Maybe I won't be able to resist too long, maybe I will.
But for now, for all intents and purposes, in this stock exchange I am no longer an active trader. I am done.
I'm taking my money out.
I tend to invest too heavily sometimes... invest in too many places sometimes, invest in the wrong place, sometimes...
Like I said, it's not like I'm any good at it. And it seems my depleted cache of capital is now unable to take any more hits, what with all these bad investments and such. The market hasn't been all that kind to me either recently, so let's take a little break I say.
Recharge...
There's blood on the floor at the stock exchange.
I am done.
"I wanna run through the
halls of my high school
I wanna scream at the
Top of my lungs
I just found out there's no such
thing as the real world
Just a lie you've got to rise above..."
