counterintuitive life expectancy
Like every trader i have an elaborate business plan that gets continuously reviewed and worked on and is filled with goal settings tat are reinforced with "pleasure seeking" rewards.
I am not one believing much in pain avoiding motivations with one exception.
The picture above is a Nepalese felt cushion 8" in size. I have one of those 10x10 squares.
to me these 100 balls represent life and i colored more than half already black and each birthday one more to remind myself that life years are the only currency that is not abundant compared to everything else on this planet.
While we feel like we live forever and while many fall for the illusion that much in life is scarce, it is the opposite.
Like the markets these "feelings" are false and counterintuitive.
I use this visual representation of this wool square to keep me motivated when I am tired or otherwise distracted from my work with the markets to readjust my commitment to work of excellence and mastery. I am a trader and i am committed to daily growth and expansion in alignment with natures guiding principle in this matter.
A week ago I had my first ever car accident after 36 years of driving( and riding motorcycles). I got rammed on the right back of the car, right where my four year old daughter was sitting, by someone running a stop sign with a big truck an my SUV got airborne. I didn't see the accident happening and was in pure surprise and reaction mode finding myself lading in opposing traffic, trying to escape. We landed that vigorous that tires tore, my gears were out and pure luck and some good reaction skills were the reason to avoid further accidents with other cars.
In the few seconds all this happened i could only think about my child in the backseat and if she would be ok as soon as i could turn my head.
Her square would only have four black felt balls yet and still with a bit less luck her life could have ended.(she's unharmed)
So why you see me always engaged in the market or back-testing or forward testing or answering your questions or trading while I had covid or skipping vacations or not having missed a day since the accident even though i still have a severe concussion is again having been reminded through this accident that every day is a present worth being honored and celebrated and giving ones all to engage in life being an opportunity but not a given fact.
Life is a fragile event and far from our intuition suggesting it being endless.