My wife likes to ask me why I'm fasting for Ramadan, as a non-Muslim. I guess a valid question, though strangely nobody ever thinks to ask anyone why they're doing yoga as a non-Hindu, or meditating as a non-Buddhist. I don't normally feel too compelled to explain myself -- my thought is, simply, when I see practices that encourage discipline that seem helpful, I pick them up. But I did just come across a Hadith that seemed to sum it up better than I would normally word myself, and I think is worth sharing🥇
"If anyone finds pleasure in receiving an answer from God in times of difficulty, he should make many supplications when times are easy."
Hadith | Tirmidhi
Hard times create strong men. If your life is full of abundance, that's great, and a blessing -- but if you'd like to find the strength to deal with the times it's undoubtedly going to be tough in the future, it helps to take steps to harden yourself. Giving thanks and making sacrifices are both a matter of avoiding taking your blessings for granted, and of hardening yourself in the future against the perils of hard times. And besides, it is the times of scarcity that teach us to better savor the flavor of abundance when it arises.
Bitcoiners likely don't need much of a sermon on deferring consumption, though I do wonder if we always look at it in this way. When you save for the future, sure, you're putting off consumption so that your existing wealth will grow in value, no doubt. But you're also learning and teaching yourself about what you don't actually need that you may have assumed necessary and taken for granted. So that when the bear market comes (and it always seems to have a way of doing that), you both have wealth you can spend, and the willpower and understanding not to spend more of it than is necessary.So as we approach what many are predicting to be potentially a very sharp run up (and while some are approaching Eid al Fitr), let's remember that it's good to savor the blessing of abundance, but also, to carry with us what we've learned in our rigorous discipline.
#Ramadan #Bitcoin #Alhamdulilah
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