Respect to those of you who HODL

I just wanted to pay my respects to the HODLers. Last night, I was having dinner at a restaurant, glass of wine in hand. I’m new to Bitcoin but have invested in the past week. I’m checking my phone every 10-30 seconds, the price, $117.5k…$116.5k…$116k…Sell? Wtf is going on…$115k…..ffs….$114.9k. Do I sell and cut my losses? Is this going down to $110k? How much will I have lost? I’ve already lost more than the car I decided not to buy. How long will I have to hold to make up for these losses? Maybe I’m just not cut out of this, too much anxiety. I left the bar to run to my car to take some anxiety medication. I convinced myself, it’s only a 2% drop in the first week of ownership, I need to man up and know I’m in it for the long haul and this kind of day is common place. Took another pill to sleep last night. Then today watched it climb back up to the mid $117k’s and caught my breath. FFS, I know there are going to be shit storms, and I’m trying my best over here, but this shit is not easy.

Cheers to you all who have been living this way for the past months/years, mad respect.