My car is officially an element of the past, but honestly I'm feeling pretty positive about the whole thing. Some of you might know that @lillywilton and I are in this vlog off about positivity, and the one who loses has to cry of course, that makes perfect sense.
So last time, she truck me on the left temple with Puppies, and that's is quite hard to top, but I'm going to try anyways.
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Sometimes you need to cut your losses. This happens in investing, it happens in development, it happens in all aspects of life.
You get so invested in an asset, a development challenge, an investment, and you lose objectivity to make rational decisions as you feel you have "put so much into it" that you that you put an unrealistic value on what you "put so much into".
As a fake news developer (I suck at it, but I just want things automated regardless), you end up putting a lot of time into one way of solving a problem, and when you realize there is a better way but your way "works" it's very hard to scrap it all to do it the right way, even if there are immediate benefits.
Hands down... i mean, its hard to know when its time to reassess, to look elsewhere, to let the car go (in my analogy/real situation). But sometimes, just sometimes the answer is to let go.
From my side of the screen: you are doing great! Oh - I can get so irrationally attached to stuff - but who really needs all of it?
I remember my mother having to defend herself why she carried two kids and her groceries on one bicycle (I'm Dutch, so this sounds less weird to me than it must sound to you :')) instead of buying a car - but the truth is, my parents had to sell their car when I was born because hey - they couldn't do it all.
On my 13th birthday they finally got a car again, it took them 13 years to get there. But they would give up their car first thing if that was what was needed financially, since I believe they still see it as a luxury, not a necessity. (Plus, bicycling is way easier if your kids are not on the front and back of your bike plus a grocery basked on the steering wheel :'))
Great job @meno <3 Enjoy the getting rid process.
Thank you for the encouragement and kind words Rosa...
i completely understand @meno . A bad year for yours truly also. Good luck to you. Be careful not to pickup someone else trouble when you purchase a replacement.
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Look, something tells me that you had no idea that I was on a 5 year off grid journey and that I own a antique store in Upper PA. Loosing my truck after putting 2500 into it really put me in a bad way. Plus, the marketing part of this platform really threw me for a loop. It has been two months now since I was forced to leave my truck in Virginia and sell it for a couple hundred bucks. We are talking about an investment in the last 5 years of 12000 grand. Poof, all gone. I am still without a truck to move my goods to market, I have been renting a vehicle. So I really do understand how difficult it is not having wheels. In America, having a auto is priority number one. The mass transit is there, but not all that joyful. In my case I need it to make a living. Something tells me in your case it is for family. Good luck.
We will both get back on our feet, this is just a bump in the road... that's all... :)
400 bones woooooo!
hey 400 bones is guds... right?
We are about to let go of a ton of basically useless crap to prepare for our upcoming move. It will be difficult, but I always feel so much lighter after the purge lol. I also view it as clearing the channels to allow more abundance to flow into my life by releasing the clutter of what no longer serves me.
the purge!!! i like that..
/me puts on his battlesuit
Well done, @meno. You are bigger than your car. Bigger than anything you own. You are what is important.
I had a car once, but couldn't afford to keep it, and sold it. It was a red Toyota Corolla, I was very fond of it, but I cut the cord, and I haven't owned a car since. And I really don't care, as it's like the money I spent was travel rent, and now I just spend my travel rent on trains and buses, which are quicker anyway over here, and don't incur big city parking expenses. And I also do a lot more walking, which is the only exercise I do, so that's a great benefit health-wise.
But, yeah, you are what is important, not your car. :)
You go on with your bad self!
Estimado amigo, l actitud que estas tomando con respecto a "todo este asunto" es la mejor.<br<Te felicito, sigue con la mente positiva, seguro generaras buenas transformaciones en la mente de los demas.
$400 is $400= $ for steem :)
Yes, that is correct!! hahahahah
letting go is really hard for me, so I am really proud of you Ninja
I feel you, i lost my exhaust recently and now my opel sounds like a lamborghini which is fun for 10 minutes but now feels shamefull and less anonymous when i come around the block and everyone knows i'm home just because the lambo sound. However i have been with it everywhere too the last 7 years and probably need to divorce it aswel as financially it's probably not worth the payment as i'm sure the mechanics will discover the other issues anyway which make it a smarter choice to just buy a new one rather than fix small issues that will cost half of the price of a new one and will equal it the next time it gets an issue.
crazy year right brother? this too shall pass as they say...
calling it quit at the right time is a valuable skill...
i have to agree muh fren
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I don't know if deep philosophy is BETTER than puppies but...still helpful.
tatakai!!!!! <3