A long arduous road, but it's only the beginning

I bought my first bit of Bitcoin back in December which was 250 dollars worth. I was learning about it from watching Youtube videos from Ark Invest, Lyn Alden, and Michael Saylor which lead me to want to invest my money into it. Since then I've read the Bitcoin White Paper, the paper written by Ark Invest and Square: Bitcoin is Key to an Abundant, Clean Energy Future and whatever else I could learn about Bitcoin. After almost 8 months of working and doing overtime at my job and racking up a total of 1890.5 hours (from January until July 25th from what my paystub says), I own a whole Bitcoin and it's stored in my private wallet. I'm pretty happy to say the least and it was tough to work so many hours and days where I had very little sleep and didn't see my family or friends. What pushed me through those days was a future where working for someone else won't be an obligation and I will be able to freely live my life the way I want and to do the things I want to do and see the people I want to see. Those days of achieving financial freedom through my investing in an asset I have a strong conviction in is coming. I'll be holding through the crashes and the bull markets. I'll be working on my second Bitcoin and there will be more I will accumulate from then after!

I want to do more in the Bitcoin community and perhaps get into mining and setting up a node. I don't think it's enough to simply accumulate Bitcoin but also be apart of it's development and security. I hope more of us step up and do what it takes to keep this asset a decentralized monetary system that requires no permission from any government, private institutions, or person. The printing of our money to devalue the time spent on our labor to acquire that money will have to stop. Where our time working no longer becomes a liability but an asset, and that is what Bitcoin means. Our time and labor that was spent in the past appreciates with time. The future is never guaranteed and it would be a mistake to believe anything that is here now will stay that way. Therefore, we must do what we can to preserve the system for not just for me, but for all of us, the future adopters of Bitcoin and the generations after us.

"...the seeds of defeat are sown on the day of victory." - Elon Musk

PS. Some or many may dislike or hate Elon, but this saying rings true nonetheless. It means that much more to me that a hero of mine also holds an asset that I own. I wish you all a prosperous journey through this paradigm shift of centralized money to an era of cypherpunks!