Money... Finances... Livelihood.
I think in this mounting great depression sort of market recently for many countries has pretty much made many people think they just don't have enough to sustain a month.

But often times because of the loom and gloom news that the dollar is going to collapse anytime soon there are just too many people are jumping into one direction - crypto.

However, from my observation even though with BTC holding on strong it is running much far ahead in this marathon race over the alt-coins, there are just not much people who truly understand the very essence of the word - investment.

Source: Wealth Smart

Investment isn't just a short term profit stake via trading and get a quick buck out of it (like those trading softwares that are looming and pounding on the advertisements whenever I login using @partiko); it signifies something potential that can return on the long run, many years ahead.

Take for the instance of the Chinese community in Malaysia that I grow up with.

Image reference: Chow Sang Sang Jewelry

Wedding gifts in gold for newly weds have been a norm for the Chinese community across the world because they know that young couples will always have a hard time having a head start; and these jewelry cast in pure gold will serve as their rainy days savings when going gets tough.

This is relatively true when twice my mom had to pawn her gold when my dad was retrenched during the 1984 recession, just to keep the family afloat.

I also know that when I used to listen to Infowars speakers that came on board speaking about the dollar collapse will always remind people to invest on precious metals even for a tiny bit because of its long standing value over centuries.

Even talking closer to home ever since Hello Gold launched in Malaysia, I started the mini investments of MYR30 a month when the price was around MYR160 /g; and recently when the going gets tough, I sold some of them just to regain some cash flow for me to either use it or reinvest into my monthly savings.

Please take note that I am not really shelling on precious metals only.

The main thing is that whenever we choose to invest, we need to know more than just the market-cap price of the entity in our investment, but also to know whether it actually has a tangible use in the real world to last the long run.

BTC so far has proven its sustainable usefulness way before it was turned into a trading frenzy for traders, the whole concept of easily transfer monetary value from one place to another without the international red tapes (but later perverted by the dark net.... sigh... humans...)

Steem, with the help of the Steemit community pusing the idea of self-creating content and later more communities like #teammalaysia , #venezuela and so much more who are really pushing hard for the adoption of STEEM / SBD parallel to the fiat ecosystem of their own country by rounding and pushing talks to the business sector, has ensured its survival for up till 4 years.

So my point is...

Are you chosing the right investment?

Even a simple investment like a place to stay (not rental) or even on a promising business could be one of the rainy days savings strategy

Heck, even if you hardly have any time to look at, at the moment while countrys' banking economy hasn't fully collapsing, the tiniest "investment" you can make is to put a minimum amount of money under fixed deposit and let it keep rolling until needed.

Investment at the end of the day is how you use of what you have at the moment and find ways to let it grow itself for you.

I think I have said this before many months ago, I will say it again. Don't place all your eggs in one basket.

The most recent cloudflare downtime last week proven enough that while this new technology of the blockchain is still struggling to stabilise with the wits and intelligence of the coders, you still got to have a plan B

And that... requires a lot of wisdom.

Especially for Investments

I hope this post serves its purpose of an enjoyable read and also a reminder that one day, we are all going to finish this journey and along the way we do need some shelter.

Until Then

Thank You for Your Time