Depends How You Look At It

Transcript

So this one is called “depends how you look at it.”

I remember in 2013 there was this bubble in bitcoin and it was going up towards 1000 dollars and reached 1100 dollars, which was crazy at the time. It was huge and I couldn’t believe it and I thought…

Maybe it’s going to keep going forever. I got sucked up in that bubble mentality, the hysteria, the hype. Imagining that things would continue on an upward trajectory.

Back then I didn’t know much about how markets work, about booms and busts and stuff like that.

And I was feeling the regret, that deep regret of “Why didn’t I buy more?”

And this is something to be aware of in recording this in 2020 and perhaps next year things will start exploding on the cryptocurrency market again.

At that time, bitcoin going up to 1000 and I’m just wondering why I didn’t take more of my money and and was spending my money on other things. Why didn’t I put it into this investment or speculation that I had known was something valuable, different new and exciting. And I had started to pray about it.

I suppose I started to think “what if I can change my perspective. What if I can change the past somehow?

I’m lying there on my bed in Melbourne and just trying to imagine what would that be like?

What if I just stepped into another reality wehre I did invest or speculate more, where I did put more money into it?

After I sat there for about 10-15 minutes doing this odd kind of prayer, this kind of greedy prayer I thought “Ok, that’s enough. That’s good.”

And I got up and I felt different like I had stepped into another room and I felt like something had changed and I realized the amount I had invested which had gone up considerably was no small amount of money.

It was actually like practically double my net worth through this speculation.

I was like “That’s funny, moments ago it seemed like I had done something so wrong for speculating more, but now it seems like a lot of money.”

What changed, did I go back and change the past or did I change my perspective?

I don’t know and in this case I’m not sure there’s a difference. Maybe change your perspective, that’s what really counts.

Another time 2017, I was sent to a detention center in CDMX because I had overstayed my tourist visa in Mexico and I was going to be deported.
And I thought “this is just terrible, what’s going on here? Getting kicked out of the country I love? I don’t believe it. I can’t believe these beaurocrats don’t see my perspective and if they do they don’t acknowledge it.

It hurt I mean my heart was breaking. I thought again in the dorm of the detention center with the steel bars and the 2 in mattresses. I thought “What if I could step into another room, once again?”

Lying on my bed I did a similar meditation, this time after maybe 5 minutes praying and thinking about the situation and imagining myself slipping into another place.

I got up and again and something was different, something had changed. Within me, or without me.

I noticed that I was actually being offered the best deal that I’ve ever had in my life.

I was offered 3 more days of attention for which I would receive my freedom and perhaps I would even have access to some of the wealth I had previously.

Even the freedom was enough and all I had to do was wait 72 hours and remain peaceful.

That’s an amazing deal. That’s a bargain. The freedom to explore to travel the world, to eat wonderful food, to fall in love to make friends, to enjoy the sunset to feel the breeze on my face….and all I had to do was be patient for three days.

I said “I accept that deal.”

So what changed? I guess just my perspective. Change your perspective, it’s probably enough.

Depends how you see it, right?

Thank you for listening, thank you for thinking beautifully.