The year 2021 is a year that I can never forget. If I could describe this year in one word, that word would be eventful. This year, I had some wins, some losses, shed some tears, laughed, expressed depression, fell in love, fell out of love, wanted to do what I promised myself not to, made some new bonds, broke some, realized what life really is and the journey is well, just starting.

2020 as we all know was a sad year as we lost some people due to the pandemic. While some were catching cruise, having fun, while I guess others were learning a trade or two and I happened to fall into learning during the lockdown. So 2021 was a year I wanted to test out what I learned (cryptocurrency) even though it was not my first time, I decided to learn the depth and explore. Entering 2021, I planned to use that knowledge to the best of my abilities.

My Wins.

• Starting up a physical business on campus.

As I said earlier, there were wins and I'm grateful that I got to record them. In 2021, I got to chase my dream. I got to open my small restaurant. Just a place where students can just hang out and chill since there were hardly any around my side. It was epic but also stressful. Being the only one running it and getting an assistant was so difficult.

• Crypto Community.

Another win was getting to get a crypto community going. In the community with the assistance of some individuals I met online, we trained, mentored, and educated newbies on the crypto space. It was so amazing seeing people do well knowing you taught them. That feeling was mind-blowing.

• My sisters got married.

Even though this wasn't a personal win, but it was a recorded win. So my sisters got married this year. One was out of the blue because she wanted to travel out and needed to get married so the man could come to join her. The second was what we had in mind and planned. So there you have it, the two girls are out of the house remains the two guys. lolz

• Starting an affiliate site.

I started with some of my friends in school to start an affiliate news reading site and it lasted for 5 months. It stayed that long because we wanted to be genuine, wanted to be different from the rest sites. Only for us to know that we were prolonging the inevitable. Well at least during those months of being active, we made people smile. I for one was happy cause I used my affiliate bonus to acquire some physical assets. So that was two wins in one.

Loss

I will just go straight to the point here. I lost the business due to some unseen circumstances such as a fight breaking out with a neighboring town and a curfew was placed since we opened at night it affected us big time. After the curfew was reduced from 7 pm to 10 pm and a week after, a strike took place and lasted for like months. All these took place in the early stage of the business and were not encouraging, so my partners in an attempt to kick me out but were not successful, decided to pull out their share.

After this happened, while I was using my crypto trading to sustain, I was contracted to help sell bitcoin worth #180,000. Normally this would have been a breeze for me but I just didn't understand what went wrong, I lost the money to fraudsters and had to pay back with what I had saved up leaving me a ground zero again. That was when the depression kicked in then I realized that I started from the bottom and climbed to where I was so what's stopping me from trying again?

As I said in the intro, I broke some bonds. One was with my business partners, the other was with someone I thought was my friend when he betrayed me and all.

My heart decided to fall for the only person that was with me in all the trying times. I just didn't know how it happened. I just found out that I was uncomfortable if I don't talk to her. Although this was never part of the bargain since ladies were distractions and I didn't want them at that moment. But I guess I was kind of wrong there.

What I Learnt

In all these happenings, I'd be a fool not to pick out some lessons because technically, we don't lose, we only discover some ways that won't work out. In the business way (my spot), I discovered that it's best to start up on your own and if you are setting up with people, draft out a contract to legalize it no matter how small it might be. Money has spirit shaaa.

Also, have savings. Don't be quick to spend. Having some money set aside for emergencies, learning to accept help from others was a major part of my life because the normal Trojan would rather die doing things himself or die while doing it instead of asking for help.

2021 was indeed a year and I was kicked really hard in the butt but I guess since I survived that, I don't think I can stop yet. I just hope 2022 will be nicer to me.

If wishes were houses lolz. Well, it's to plan and pray.

Thanks for stopping by.

Until my next post,
Keep on buzzing 🐝🐝🐝
I still remain Trojan...