ROJ – 2023, Thankfulness
Thankfulness –
As the first topic to cover I feel this is a real touchy concept... Being Thankful. Being a kid and working with the idea of being grateful for the little things in your life is a hard task. Carrying into being a grown man I find myself ensuring every interaction I feel is a betterment to myself or genuine conversation and people’s time I am sure to express being thankful. The only people I have to appreciate this from as well is my parents, and as a society I think the action of being thankful is somewhat rare which has turned almost taboo.
In the web3 space I find it is almost rarer or looked down upon as a pitiful thing or manipulation for greed which is just wrong. The bad end of this is it really comes down to the everyday actions of people and how the simple action of being thankful isn’t seen as gratitude.I find myself working with a different viewpoint and haven’t truly taken the time to be grateful for how great my life has been the last 12 months.
I first want to start this off with Web3. This all started as a fun concept of just playing with Ethereum. Loading up a couple hundred bucks and trying to make it big like the monkey’s being sold on the news LOL. In almost a complete 360 I have found the upmost respect and gratitude for the ecosystem of blockchain technology. As well as finding myself integrating this into my everyday life. This time last year I took over a largely prevalent rug pulled project on the Solana ecosystem. I was 20 years old with 0 experience in managing a team or really any skills outside of customer service and working on a computer. Even to add I had recently lost my job and had less than 7k to my name and was scraping the barrel to find routes I can take to survive the future. But, I started by getting it all turned into a proper DAO looking for some help and found some users coming to offer.
We all know the same old scams and crap trying to entice us in our discord DM’s and none the less I met a gentleman named Will. This was one of the most enthusiastic and down to grind mfs I had ever seen and only in a 3 day trial knew working with him we’d make a good team. We then started pushing the lines and talking over calls discussing further plans and really just building a relationship over this web3 business. Over time HOLY SHIT did I feel like I was doing this whole web3 thing wrong bc this mfer was helping me print out THE ASS lmao.
These plays would start small then get bigger and bigger and really just came down to trust between one another and especially with someone I had never met in my life. Nonetheless we are both looking out for each other and covering each others asses making sure we aren’t missing out on any plays or missed money. This had become our business oriented relationship and we both just had massive respect for always keeping pace with the type of work we are choosing.
I then got another one of my IRL friends who had lived in Texas involved with the Web3 scene. His name was Jordan and we met in High school and since he had moved out to Texas to pursue a new life with his girlfriend and has been there for 2 years. He had hit me up to see what this crypto stuff was about as I had been posting about it on my social media and really wasn’t offering anything out just showing it but Jordy was making it clear he was wanting to invest his time and I knew since high school this mfer can sell water to fish haha. I then got him into the project we had been working on that we took over and got him involved into the everyday business and actions. He understood the market fully and was always willing to take on his own risks and never blame anyone and over anything that’s the name of the game we can only share the information and that that share it early. So he got in the groove and I got him in with me and Will.
Over the months me and Will had started working to the point we wanted to get to some NFT events and network. There was a Degods event here in California and within 2 weeks notice we had given we had a flight booked and paid for and had decided he is gonna stay at my house. I made sure this was all cool with my parents and even in asking they asked ” This dude isn’t a serial killer right?” Which made my ass laugh but they knew from me talking about Will the past couple months I had been spending a lot of time with this dude but were cool with it. The day comes, I make the 2 hour drive and pick him up from LAX and meet him for the first time and I’m just amazed how it was just so natural in meeting. Almost like we had known each other forever and at this time we had known each other maybe 8-9 months. But we go for a good meal in Santa Monica and get ready for the event ha came out for…. Degods Bonfire event.
I was hoping to meet a few people and maybe have some networking go on but nah this man dives right into every conversation and immediately gets shit moving even knowing some friends of people at the event. AND GETS US A DAMN VIRL PIC WITH FRANK DEGODS LMAO.
My bro had not only flown out to the event but made it a very pivotal night for both of us. We drove back to my house and spent hours talking over assets and the new OMB’s we had just minted with me getting pissed off and spending 2 hours understanding how Sparrow wallet works and end up getting it. He ended up spending the next 2 days with my family and making the first time we met a great time and only wished he had lived closer.
Time passes we are doing our thing the Trio of Jordy ROJ and Will decide it’s time for us all to finally meet up and hang out for Jordy’s birthday in November. We plan this out for a month and decide on San Diego as the spot we book everything and get prepared. Now, I am in central California, Joran flying into LAX and Will who lives in Mexico at the time flying into Tijuana this is going to require some coordination LMAO. I ended up driving to LAX grabbing Jordy going to the border after getting Will then going to San Diego to our Airbnb. As soon as we landed and got settled we went 2 blocks and had a drink at the corner bar and got right to Casa Azul. No wasting time got right into it haha, me and my brothers had spent all weekend going over San Diego and going bar hopping, shopping for our gf’s and visiting some car shows.
This at 21 is really the first time I had ever had some friends to ever go and do stuff like this with. Even in high school me and Jordan weren’t the closest of friends find it hilarious how much we shit we had in common. But this was a much needed break and grateful time I had with my brothers. By the end of it we were all pretty burnt we had to go our separate ways but knew that GC was going to stay active with one of us talking shit. I am also extremely proud of their accomplishments as our year had all been hard in some way and we all reached a goal of meeting each other. All in all this last year has taught me to be grateful. Be grateful for the people in my life. Grateful for the positions im in. Grateful for the places I’ve been blessed to go. And grateful for the people I have in my life. As a man it is hard to be truthful with yourself with internal feelings. Whether you are battling debt, heartache, additions, or just life having a solid group of men to back you is a very needed thing. As corny as the Tate mindset is I will always respect brotherhoods and brotherhoods built on hardships. I had some major losses this year of losing incredibly close people in my life and having the only people to rely on are friends from online is such a crazy thing but I am blessed for it. As for my closing for being grateful. I am grateful for you reading and hope you will stay updated with further content. I hope you have an amazing life and hope 2024 is the year you reach your goals and understand what life does for you.
And thank you Web3!
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