We're not always getting what we want.

But, most of the time, we're getting what we need. The "problem" is that what we need is almost always coated with a rather bitter layer, that makes us unhappy.

Let me explain.

Like many of you know, I've been an entrepreneur for almost 18 years. Unfortunately, my last business, a co-working space, failed abruptly (well, failure is part of the game, so to speak). The "technical" reasons of the failure are not relevant now, what matters is that, after the business went down, I realized I had a consistent amount of debt.

For a while, all my bank accounts were frozen and I started to pay off, month by month, to cover the losses.

After about a year, I paid off all my debt and my bank accounts were finally unfrozen.

During that year, I was really frustrated. At times, I was even victimizing myself. Not being able to use my bank accounts was making me feel insecure and bitter.

But at the same time, the fact that I wasn't able to use my bank accounts made me look for alternatives.

And that's how I got into crypto.

When I realized what a beautiful thing this whole universe is, I went full monty on it, so to speak. I read tons of white papers, I tested code, I got involved with projects (STEEM is obviously one of them) and, slowly, I became an early adopter.

As you can see, what I wanted was to keep using an obsolete, centralized money transfer system, but what I actually needed, was to learn about a new way to generate, spend and transfer money. All that frustration was the coating that I had to consume until I got to the core. And oh, the core was so sweet and healthy...

And here's where the gratitude comes in. I'm not upset about the failure. I'm not frustrated that I went into debt (as a matter of fact I'm really happy that I paid it back, to the last cent). To be honest, I'm grateful that all this happened.

Because if it wasn't for this failure, if it wasn't for my inability to use banks, I would never learned about crypto, let aside get involved so much with it.

We're not always getting what we want.

But, most of the time, we're getting what we need.

Let's stop, every once in a while, and think about it, while keeping a subtle, but constant gratitude feeling.

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Previous posts in the challenge:

• 30 Days Challenge Fall 2018 - Day One: All Ultramarathons Start With Just One Small Step
• 30 Days Challenge Fall 2018 - Day Two: How Much Garbage Do You Carry With You?
• 30 Days Challenge Fall 2018 - Day Three: Pushing Things To Happen Versus Letting Them Happen "Through" You
• 30 Days Challenge Fall 2018 - Day Four: The Rain In Spain Stays Mainly On The Plain
• 30 Days Challenge Fall 2018 - Day Five: Books, Coffee And The Smell Of A Gentle Autumn
• 30 Days Challenge Fall 2018 - Day Six: Revisiting The Harry Potter Trees In Turia
• 30 Days Challenge Fall 2018 - Day Seven: Sand Castles
• 30 Days Challenge Fall 2018 - Day Eight: Be Careful Of New Beginnings
• 30 Days Challenge Fall 2018 - Day Nine: Tuesday's Free Writing
• 30 Days Challenge Fall 2018 - Day Ten: The Power And Toxicity Of Lists
• 30 Days Challenge Fall 2018 - Day Eleven: Unblocking Writer's Block - A Primer
• 30 Days Challenge Fall 2018 - Day Twelve: Riding The Wave Of Change
• 30 Days Challenge Fall 2018 - Day Thirteen: When All You Have Is A Hammer, Everything Looks Like A Nail
• 30 Days Challenge Fall 2018 - Day Fourteen: Sunday Stillness
• 30 Days Challenge Fall 2018 - Day Fifteen: The Next Major Social Disruption Will Be Technological
• 30 Days Challenge Fall 2018 - Day Sixteen: The Difference Between Sound And Light
• 30 Days Challenge Fall 2018 - Day Seventeen: Ten Years Of Bitcoin
• 30 Days Challenge Fall 2018 - Day Eighteen: How Long Is Long Enough? Spoiler: Until It's Done...

Steem on!

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I'm a serial entrepreneur, blogger and ultrarunner. You can find me mainly on my blog at Dragos Roua where I write about productivity, business, relationships and running. Here on Steemit you may stay updated by following me @dragosroua.

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