In mid-2024, I was very close to changing my fate. That day, I seriously studied the ZORA project, even specially downloaded the ZORA APP, and like a mature and steady investor, I carefully read through it from start to finish.
After watching, I came to an extremely 'rational' conclusion: this is an NFT platform for creating artworks. Then I chuckled coldly in my heart, NFT? Hasn't this thing already been educated by the market? Bubble, cutting leeks, fleeting moment, I’ve memorized all the keywords.
So I very decisively did not buy. At that time, I even felt a bit proud, thinking I had evolved into an old leek who wouldn't be fooled by new concepts, and I gave myself a thumbs up for my clarity.
Time flies to the end of 2025, and the market suddenly gave me a gentle slap. ZORA has increased tenfold. Not the kind of 'it's doing okay', but the kind that makes you double-check three times and question whether you're seeing things correctly—tenfold.
At that moment, my mind began to replay all the details of that day automatically. I clearly downloaded the app, I clearly understood what it was doing, I even stood at the door and touched the doorknob, but in the end, I chose to turn and leave.
Later, I finally understood that I didn't lose because I couldn't understand the project; I lost because I concluded too early about the future. I used the phrase 'NFT is a bubble' to successfully kill an opportunity that was just starting to sprout, while comfortingly telling myself, 'Fortunately, I wasn't fooled.'
The most cruel and humorous part of the market is that it never argues with you about right or wrong. No matter how correct your viewpoint or perfect your logic, as long as you didn't participate, the price increase has nothing to do with you.
Many opportunities that change your fate do not look like opportunities at all when they appear. They seem marginal, immature, even giving you a sense of superiority like 'I'm smarter than that.' And this sense of superiority often comes at the highest cost.
After this incident, I learned something very important: laugh less at new things, refrain from rushing to judgment, and give the future a little time. Because by the time you seriously study it again, the price has usually already begun to teach you a lesson.
If there is a most stable rule in this world, it is probably that the things you looked down upon back then often rise sharply later.#zora