The Lush Life
I'm not going to even try to guess what Bitcoin is going to do this week. For one, it's just too crazy right now. It seems like every time I write one of these posts and I try to figure out what is going to happen I get it totally wrong. I say it's nice that it is going up and then it goes down, or I say it looks like we are in for some pain and it goes up. At this point I am just like whatever.
The world in general is just crazy right now, prices are going up, things are going to crap, and it just makes you wonder if this is the world we were all looking forward to when we were younger. I know I wasn't. I think a lot of us had this notion that the future was supposed to be cheaper and better. It sure doesn't feel that way right now. All of these technological advancements and innovations were supposed to be life and world changing. I guess that might still be the case, but instead of being a positive thing, it is more of a negative.
This world of abundance that many of us were looking forward to (even short term) seems to be more a think of myth and legend versus something that is actually within our grasp.
With the rising cost of food, enjoying a nice steak dinner might be a thing of the past. Unless you have a local source for your beef like @cryptoandcoffee was talking about in his latest post. I remember when my wife and I first got married we were pinching our pennies pretty tightly. I used to take our grocery bill each week and break it down into the different category of items we were purchasing. So for example maybe 10% of our bill was canned goods, 10% dairy, 20% dry goods, 10% snacks, things like that. It would never fail that 50% or more of our bill was always fresh fruits and vegetables. Only back then, our weekly bill was $75 to $100. Now it is closer to $150 to $175 USD. Pretty sad right.
Like I said, I just thought things would be different by now. Yes, we have seen some technology advancements, but I can't say that the majority of them are things which are improving our quality of life. I won't go into this too much, @tarazkp has written countless posts about how this is all playing out. Feel free to check out his blog if you want more information. The fact is, we are chasing the wrong things and it makes me wonder where these things we keep chasing are going to lead us.
Nowhere good I am sure.
I'm not really sure what grilling has to do with any of this, but I took some really great photos while I was making dinner last weekend and I wanted to share them here with you. Probably the fact that sometimes we just need to enjoy the simple pleasures of life despite all the turmoil that is happening around us. Something profound like that.
Long term, I just plan on doing what I have been doing. I get up and go to work each day as long as I've still got breath, I find joy where I can through my family, traveling, grilling, or other hobbies, and I just keep putting one foot in front of the other.
Waiting for that day when crypto moons, it's time to retire, or something else happens to shake up my small corner of the world. This is a shorter post I know, and I didn't really focus on finance like I usually do, but I just wanted to get some thoughts out there.
Just to reiterate, it was supposed to be better than this right? The future I mean. Cheaper, better, something to be in awe of, not something to be disappointed with. Was I hoping for too much? After close to 50 years on this planet, I kind of don't know what to expect anymore.
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I expected better, but like you just get up each day and enjoy now for what it is. Cherish the moments.
That's all we can really do at this point!
Yeah, prices suck. Not sure they will go down much under a different president either. Once they are up, they never usally go down.
That seems to be the case....
I think we often assume and take for granted that the world/society progresses forward and that things improve. In reality things dont always get better. Sometimes (often times nowadays it seems) things actually get worse. I definitely agree that it thought it would all get better with time but that does not seem to be the way things are panning out
These days you have to find more ways to earn in order to stay ahead and I was thinking what I am doing these days and how much extra stuff we have taken on is insane.
Now I can understand better your comment on my post.
I never had the idea that things in the future will be cheaper. Maybe never even thought about that. We do know that inflation is a vicious circle ans makes life just more expensive. There is nothing we can do about that. In Belgian there is a law which forces the companies to give a raise if life became so much more expensive. It is called the index. Within this index there are various stuf, from food to gasoline, from electricity to medical things. When this index crosses a mark, then salary raises have to been given. The company can decide when they do it, each time when the mark is crossed or once a year cummulative.
But tsome things are better than we were younger and others have become worse.
Everything seems so uncertain. If it weren't for this war in Iran I think the markets would be doing much better. Everything is tied to the price of oil. I've stopped trying to predict as well and just have resigned to the fact that things will be trending down for a while. With the insanely high cost of living here in the Twin Cities our weekly grocery trips have topped $300 for the first time ever. It's hard to believe we pay the equivalent of what our monthly mortgage payment used to be for food. I really wish we could plant a garden where we are. That would help out a lot. We are allowed container gardens so I might, at least, grow some tomatoes and herbs this year.