Hit refresh?

My phone tends to be lagging, so every time I want to check the markets (like every five minutes or so), chances are it will show the page as it was last time I checked. Figures my brain has already processed, but I know I have to refresh the page. So there’s a fifty-fifty chance the numbers are up. Or down, today. Even after yesterday’s volatility, I still have to refresh the page… and say a quick prayer while I wait for the page to load. (Well, I’m not complaining… BTC hovering upwards of 11k beats being stuck in the 5k region!)

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On the other hand, I have come to the conclusion it’s better to have more problems to worry about instead of just one. Sure, more problems means more pressure and it’s not the best scenario, but… The good part is you can switch from one annoying problem to another so neither of them ends up looming too large. Like I just got off the phone after a draining conversation, problems that are not in my power to solve… I spent another minute staring at the wall and, since there wasn’t much I could do about that problem, I decided to put it out of my mind and have another look at the markets, instead. That didn’t do much as far as my mood is concerned, but it sort of balances things… after all, there’s a finite quantity of worry people can hold in their heads at any given time, so it gets spread out among the various problems…
On top of everything else, it’s very hot over here… Since I had to go out twice, much of my energy was spent trying to stay alive… Some days, simply surviving is the greatest accomplishment…
Hope your day was better!