Feel bad about missing out on solana? Let me share my sob story.

Back in jan 23 I put a huge chunk of my portfolio (just under 100k) in solana at around 14.70 for ~6,700 pieces, and I ended up buying ~50 pieces or ~100 pieces every few weeks for a grand total of ~6,900 pieces of solana. All my friends thought I was an idiot. I was convinced the price was low and it would pump eventually, had no clue as to when or to how much but I told myself I’d be patient and I would be right.

I ended up getting sucked into meme coin summer 2023 from all the gains everyone was supposedly making and sold the entire portfolio on coinbase at around ~20 a coin back in april 2023 and aped into meme coins because of stupid, childish greed. No it wasn’t pepe, that would’ve worked out better, the coins were far worse and riskier and I won’t even mention them.

I lost over 100k and it took months to even start recovering and today my portfolio sits at around ~60k. I could’ve bought into solana last October at around ~22 a coin but my pride got in the way. I only had 40k in my portfolio back then so I would have way less than the original 6,900 I once had and told myself ‘i’Ll fInD a bEtTeR cOiN’ and make more and that solana was a joke. Hey it went from 14 to 22 in 10 months time, but it exploded after oct 23.

Solana hit a recent ath of 197 a coin, and at 6,912 coins, which was the highest amount I ever had that’s ~1.4 mill. If I swallowed my pride back in oct 23 and bought back into solana, which I did think about, I’d be at around 400k, way better than the ~60k I’m at today. I’m also unemployed at the moment.

I’ve sadly gone through this before. Back at the end of 2021 I had around 500k in Eth and thought that was amazing before it started going down and then crashed. If I had just been patient another 6 months solana would’ve started climbing, I would have held on, I’d be a millionaire today while being unemployed and not desperately having to worry about money.

I still manage to sleep at night but it does affect my mental health. I honestly wish I had never bought solana in the first place because I constantly catch myself thinking about ‘what if’ scenarios, especially when a nice car drives by me. And of course my friends are tired of hearing me whine about it and I can tell a few of them are happy I lost out on the opportunity.

But I’ve now been through several life changing opportunities in crypto that I’ve lost out on. I’m convinced that if I keep trying I can make it, eventually. At least I hope, who knows