The Sacrifice of the Investor

The life of the investor is hard. Very hard.

All he does is give up his free time and money in the hopes of seeing a return on his labours. He toils, and toils and toils. Family and friends start to urge him to 'get a real job' where he can enjoy weekends like the rest of the people and get stat holidays off. All forces around try to push him back down the road to mediocrity. No one understands him and he is isolated. If any attempted investment should fall short of wonderful gains, the investor takes the full brunt of the 'failure' and his direction and intentions are again brought into question.

"Why don't you get a normal job?"
"All we have are loans. We don't have any spending money."
"Where are all the gains? If we were doing a normal job we'd make more than this."
"Why is my life so hard?"

But he who doesn't take his hand off the plow will win.
He who takes his failures and uses them to win, will prosper.
A few pieces of bread and a couple of fish can and will be multiplied.

Don't quit.
Don't settle for mediocrity.
Seek knowledge. Heed wisdom.
Encourage each other and surround yourself with like-minded individuals.
...and don't quit!