Reflection: Welcome to the Age of Relentlessness!

This morning was once again marked by the fact that it was a little after noon by the time I got around to having something to eat for breakfast.

It seems like it has become a more and more common occurrence, as I get up in the morning and make myself a cup of coffee and then start wading through all the fundamental stuff that is clamoring for my attention.

Morning emails, morning social media, morning tasks, morning bill paying, morning financial updates and before I look at anything, such as even making a slice of toast, it's already 11:30 or something in that region.

So I have my delayed breakfast, and because I am an online seller of various sundry things, the next couple of hours go with checking orders, answering customer inquiries and packing up anything sold that has to go out.

I do consider myself blessed because I get to do this from the comfort of my home. I chose the life of self-employment some 25 years ago, and whereas that involves its fair share of difficulties and financial struggles I'm overall pretty happy that I don't have to get up at oh-dark-thirty every morning and then commute for an hour and a half to some job that I hate doing, for a soulless corporation, end up exhausted at the end of the day and then having to commute for an hour and a half to get home.

I try to be positive about the small pleasures in life and grateful for the things that do turn out the way we hope for.

As I gradually grow older, I face the fact that it's unlikely that I will ever retire but that's okay in the end... I'm not really doing any kind of work that would be too strenuous for me to continue doing into my seventies and beyond, assuming of course that my mind stays reasonably intact.

If there's anything about the whole routine that ever gets to me a little bit it is perhaps the relentlessness of it.

It has also been 25 years since I've had anything that even looks like a weekend, or a "day off." When you're self-employed - at least if you're dedicated to what you're doing - such things don't even exist anymore. They cease to be part of your vocabulary.

Once again, I'm grateful for the fact that I am interested in what I'm doing, and I haven't grown bored with it.

I look around me and consider the business world, and specifically the world of crypto in 2024, and it strikes me that things seem to fail more often than they used to.

And that doesn't seem like it's because people have bad ideas, but more a case of people being less patient than they used to be and so things are declared "failures" before they really have a chance to be run up to the point where you can actually determine that they're failures.

Granted, the world seems to be moving faster than ever, but sometimes it strikes me that people have lost sight of the value of that relentlessness I mentioned earlier.

Perhaps I'm a little more cognizant of its value than most people because I have no extraordinary talents or skills, and I'm not gifted in some ways, and I don't think I'm particularly lucky in the greater sense of the word so I can't rely on such things... the only thing I do have is a willingness to stick to it above and beyond what most people do.

It could also be simply because I come from an older generation, but sometimes it seems like the idea of working your way to success has been replaced by this strange and surreal lottery like expectation of life.

What I mean by that is that success more often seems to be a product of getting lucky and being in the right place at the right time than a success built on having a great fundamental idea and then relentlessly pursuing its success until it actually becomes successful. Even my own daughter remarked "don't be so OLD!" when I made a comment to that effect.

It's an odd dichotomy, though. Life comes at us more relentlessly than ever, but we're to depend more on luck and fortune to meet it... rather than equal relentlessness, in return?

Sometimes I don't know about this planet!

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