DubWolf

We might decide to chase things we tell ourselves are impossible, and we try real hard to accept that so that it’s easy to move away from trying to... do a meaningless “chasing of the wind”.

But it’s hard to accept impossibility sometimes. Because many things, other than death, are never really “impossible”, and we’re stubborn to believe that.

Unfortunately, the more you fail on investments, the more likely you are to become conservative and only ever take your chances when things are greatly in your favor. Waiting for a perfect storm to come that’ll only happen perhaps once every 30 years (random number. Or longer). But at least in that case you have one thing still left, and that’s control. That is, letting these failures happen on your terms rather than on others or life itself. How can you continue to persevere if you begin to feel like you have no real control over your fate? We might already feel powerless but still want to have that illusion of control to feel like we can make a difference in those matters.

It’s a different philosophy from “keep trying harder”. You want to fight harder, but you don’t want to tire yourself out so much either. Pick your battles. Except, sometimes the truth is everything’s stacked against you and there are no battles you can realistically win or gain much from if you lose. 
 

Fortunately, one doesn’t have to struggle forever. Eventually you’ll succeed, or time out. Hopefully, the first one happens first, and then the other one happens a loooooong time from then afterwards.

Tl;dr, I’m doing fine  .